Crystal-clear waters. Cold-blooded murder. Deep blue lies. When Ava Whitaker is kicked out of medical school – and dumped by her boyfriend – her life falls apart. But the real problem isn’t her future. It’s in her past. She was born on the Greek island of Alythos, where her mother once mixed cocktails at the luxurious Aegean Dream Resort. Yet her mother has never spoken about that time, never explained why she left so suddenly, and never answered the one question that’s haunted Ava her entire life: Who was her father?
Desperate for answers, Ava travels to Alythos to discover the truth. But what begins as a search for her identity quickly turns into something far more sinister. The island’s aquamarine waters hide tragic secrets. The locals’ smiles don’t reach their eyes. And the abandoned resort, with its cracked pool and vine-strangled terraces, feels like a tomb.
Because something happened here twenty years ago. Something the locals have spent decades trying to forget. And something somebody will do anything to keep buried…
My thoughts: Dear Parents, please tell your children the truth about their parentage if there are any questions e.g. who’s their father or if they’re adopted. Otherwise, like Ava, they might go digging and find things out you’d rather they didn’t.
Ava knows that her dad is Greek and that she was conceived when her mum was working at a holiday resort on the island of Alythos. But her mum won’t tell her anything else, like her dad’s name or why they up and left Greece so quickly.
So, having been forced to drop out of medical school, Ava’s off to Greece, armed with a photo of her mum, a few facts and a whole lot of supposition.
But as she learns about what happened at the resort twenty-three years ago, the questions mount up. Is she the baby left alive after the murder/suicide of the resort’s manager and his girlfriend? How does her mum fit in to that story? As Imogen (her mum’s friend) and her mum also head out to Greece, will Ava finally get some answers and will what she learns give her the peace she needs?
Full of shocking revelations and twists, this is one summer of discovery no one is coming away from unchanged.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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