She Fell Away
A Novel
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4.0 • 8 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A State Department diplomat must confront the ghosts of her past as she searches for a missing American woman in New Zealand in this pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller.
Lake Harlowe may not appear to be your typical State Department diplomat. With the number of skeletons in her closet exceeding the tattoos on her skin, she moves to a new country every few years to keep one step ahead of her personal demons. After two grueling years working in Cambodia, Lake’s desperate for a break and a new posting to sleepy Wellington, New Zealand, seems like a dream come true.
That is, until eighteen-year-old singer-songwriter Bowie Bishop mysteriously vanishes shortly after American NFL player Bruce Walter is found dead in his hotel room. An exchange student from Las Vegas, Bowie was a world away from her possessive, washed-up stage mom who won’t stop calling until Lake finds her superstar daughter.
All at once, Lake finds herself ensnared in a network of deception involving Bowie’s high-profile host family, a shadowy music producer, a casino magnate, and the US ambassador—her boss. Obsessed with finding the truth, Lake soon realizes that to find the missing girl, she must confront her own dark past in this unputdownable thriller that will keep you guessing until the final page.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Romance author Nash (Can't Get Enough of the Duke, as Lenora Bell) pivots to thrillers with this arresting page-turner about 18-year-old American singer Bowie Bishop, who goes missing while studying abroad in New Zealand. When U.S. diplomat Lake Harlowe fields a frantic call from Bowie's mother at the U.S. embassy in Wellington, Lake, who's embraced the nomadic life of a diplomat as a means of escaping unresolved trauma back home in Alaska, is already grappling with another PR nightmare: the hours-old discovery of dead NFL quarterback Bruce Walter from an apparent overdose in his Airbnb. Lake's preliminary digging into Bowie's disappearance reveals that the teen's mom works at a Las Vegas casino owned by Bruce's father. The plot thickens when Lake's new boss, a political appointee with an appetite for barely legal young women, presses her to back off from both cases. But that's not an option for Lake, who feels an affinity with the missing teen. With the help of a hunky police sergeant, she investigates both cases in secret, exposing a web of connections that appears to link powerful predators across the globe. Though the plot flirts with implausibility, Nash, a former Foreign Service officer, crafts a provocative thriller helmed by a series-worthy protagonist. Readers won't be able to put this down.
