The Mistake I Made
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Publisher Description
An indecent proposal has fatal repercussions in this "hypnotic" thriller from the author of Keep Your Friends Close (Kirkus Reviews).
Roz has reached her breaking point. Her marriage and business have both failed. And with debts racking up, she's struggling to provide for her nine-year-old son, who is starting to misbehave in school.
Then, at her sister's fortieth birthday party, a perfect—albeit indecent—opportunity presents itself. Scott Elias is wealthy, powerful, and very married. But he wants Roz and he's willing to pay for the privilege of her company.
Offering cash in exchange for a no-strings-attached night of intimacy, Scott's deal could clear Roz's debts, get her life back on track, and maybe give her the chance to have some fun in the bargain. But as the situation spirals out of control, Roz is forced to do things she never thought herself capable of . . .
"[Daly] has a real gift for mixing insightful writing on domestic life with a suspenseful premise." —Booklist
"Daly heats things up fast." —Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
You'd think that with single mom Roz Toovey's furniture already repossessed, her anxious nine-year-old son stealing money at school, and eviction looming, her situation couldn't get much worse but it decidedly does in this disappointing downer from CWA Gold Dagger Award finalist Daly (Keep Your Friends Close). Despite her labors as a physiotherapist in England's Lake District, Roz can't see a way out from under the ever-compounding debt racked up by her feckless estranged husband. That is, until wealthy married patient Scott Elias makes her a tantalizingly lucrative and indecent proposal. Things start to get really complicated when, first, Roz's boss, Wayne, stumbles into the arrangement; she then meets an eligible man she likes who happens to be Scott's brother-in-law. Though the plot starts to pick up speed about halfway through, which is around the time Wayne goes missing, by then there's been enough of Roz's largely dreary daily life that some readers may decide not to proceed further.
