A Journalist Searches for a Famous Author

Bree Bennett is newly divorced with a difficult teenage daughter, Chloe. She needs something to do other than pilots and dealing with her daughter. As a former journalist, she’d like to find a subject that would get her back into the business.

Ward DeFleur is a famous novelist, who has been in hiding since the murder of her daughter Stevie. Unable to cope with the fallout from the savage murder, Ward is hiding in her beautiful estate. She refuses to write and doesn’t want publicity surrounding the tragedy.

Bree, however, is persistent and against the odds, she meets and becomes friends with Ward.

I found the book very uneven. The stage is set through phone conversations between Bree and her friend, Maggie. While interesting, they didn’t move the story for me. Once Bree starts working on her quest, the pace picks up and the story becomes more interesting, but the ending was rather a shock. It seemed to come our of nowhere.

I couldn’t warm up to Bree or Ward. They seemed like stock characters. Bree’s mother was more interesting and flamboyant, but she couldn’t carry the story. Chloe was a typical teen, but again the motivation was lacking.

Although the characters didn’t draw me, the plot was interesting and well paced until the ending.

I received this book from Net Galley for this review.