Not all anniversaries are happy.
Three years ago today, my husband was murdered. He died on the same date I lost
my high-school best friend in a car crash.
I’ve rebuilt my life since then. I have a steady job as a make-up artist and friends who love me. I’m happy – mostly.
But today is still the anniversary of the two worst days of my life.
So by the time I get home from work, all I want to do is curl up on my couch and
distract myself with snacks and cheesy movies.
I open my handbag and find something that shouldn’t be there. Something that sends a shiver down my spine.
A small gift box, my name written unevenly across the lid.
Inside is a message:
Happy anniversary.
Someone is trying to sabotage your life.
And they won’t stop until you’re destroyed.
And it’s written in a code my best friend invented before she died . . .
Sonya Bateman is an award-winning copywriter and novelist, a mid-eighties to late-nineties fantasy movie enthusiast, coffee hoarder, and collector of cool rocks who spent a not-insignificant portion of her childhood climbing trees in order to read books in peace. She grew up in Central New York, where the seasons are Winter and Road Construction and “not the city” is officially part of everyone’s address.
Sonya has been writing professionally for more than 15 years. She currently lives in a big house in a little city, still in Central New York (not the city), with her husband,
son, and feline overlords. She writes fast-paced urban fantasy and twisty, shocking psychological fiction that may leave you suspicious of your friends and neighbors— and sleeping with the lights on.
My thoughts: Indigo has had a lot of sad and terrible things happen to her – her mother died, her best friend was murdered and then so was her husband.
Her only support is her brother Ethan, who was dating her best friend when she died, and calls her to check in on the tragic anniversary.
But this one is different, someone has somehow put an old Nokia phone in Indigo’s bag and is trying to warn her of danger. Is everything she thought she knew a lie? Who is sending her messages and how do they know the code she and Saria invented as teenagers?
As Indigo tries to investigate and gets involved with an MLM scam that seems to have recruited everyone she’s ever met. At a conference, things start to unravel and Indigo finds herself at the centre of a web of lies and deception.
Filled with twists and turns, a likeable protagonist in Indigo and shocking revelations as she hunts for the truth.
*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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