Aimee Tierney seems to have everything going her way. She's a chef at her parent's restaurant which she loves and she's about to marry her childhood sweetheart. Everything is going her way up until a couple of months before her wedding day. On a business trip to Mexico, one which she tried to talk him out of, James Donato, her fiance, falls off a fishing boat and goes missing. Now two months later, James body has been found and instead of walking down the aisle at her wedding she is burying James on her wedding day. When a stranger approaches her in the parking lot afterwards the things that are said to her rock her world even more but can they be true? Aimee struggles to move on but what the stranger told her eats at her. And even as she rebuilds not only her career but her emotional life, she is drawn to search out answers into James accident and disappearance. And the secrets she finds will make her question everything about her life with James.
The premise of this book sounded so interesting but, for me, it fell down in areas of the execution. The exploration of grief and loss from a tragic event was good and you felt for Aimee as she tried to work through not only the tragic loss of her fiance but also all of her dreams as every area of her world comes crashing down. There was however, so much that didn't work for me with the story. Reactions, and in some cases, almost non-reactions to major events, simplistic solving of situations, answers that were a little too convenient made it feel forced and rushed. There is a book 2 and 3 and the second deals with the perspective of another of the major characters to the major secrets so maybe when read together the story would come together better. But as it read in just this first book, for me, it just didn't quite gel.
I gave it a 5.5 out of 10
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