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GenreĀ ~ domestic thriller
SettingĀ ~ Maine
Publication dateĀ ~ May 13, 2025
PublisherĀ ~ Harper
Est Page CountĀ ~ 370 (68 chapters)
Audio lengthĀ ~ 12 hours 33 minutes
NarratorsĀ ~ Kathleen Early, Caitlin Kelly, Sarah Mollo-Christensen
POVĀ ~ 1st & 3rd
FeaturingĀ ~ murder, sexual harassment and assault
My review:
Rowan is an architect restoring an old mansion. How fun! But maybe not so when weird things start happening. Then she finds her ex-boyfriend murdered in the parking lot and we’re off to find out what secrets this historic house holds, and what lengths some will go to in order to find out.
Coralie tells her story of being a secretary for a man that likes to take advantage of young women. Sleezy McSleezerpants. Her part is the slowest burn of them all.
Told in 3rd ~ Natalie (16) is Rowan’s daughter and her father, Harrison, is in prison. Now he’s out and wants to redeem himself. I was rooting for him because he wasn’t bad at all. Ugh, though, I hate when the teens think they know what’s best and be sneaky, bugs me so much. Although, she was a pretty good kid despite that.
Overall, this was really engaging and I was totally invested in seeing what would happen. There were some nice suspenseful moments that kept me listening into the night.
Side note ~ (I’ll be vague without spoiling) I found it clever how the person that was in jeopardy at the end was located. I passed the info along to my college bound kid to try to always have hers.
Narration notes:
Thrilled there were 3. They all did a great job.
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Book blurb:
The acclaimed USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author returns with a twisty thriller that probes how well we actually know the men in our lives.
Rowan Gallagher is a devoted single mother and a talented architect with a high-profile commission restoring an historic mansion for the most powerful family in Maine. But inside, sheās a mess. She knows that stalking her exās avatar all over Portland on her phone isn’t the healthiest way to heal from their breakup. But sheās out of ice cream and she’s sick of romcoms.
Watching his every move is both fascinating and infuriating. He’s dining out while she’s wallowing on the couch. The last straw comes when he parks in their favorite spot on the waterfront. In a weak moment, she leashes the dog and sets off to see who else is in his car.
Instead of catching her ex in a kiss, Rowan becomes the first witness to his murderāand the primary suspect.
But Rowan isnāt the only one keeping secrets. As she digs for the truth, she discovers the dead man was stalking her too, gathering intimate details about her job and her past.
Struggling to clear her name, Rowan finds herself spiraling into the shadowy plot that killed him.
Will she be the next to die?
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Having only just finished reading Dying to Meet You, I am puzzled and frustrated by its last chapter. And nowhere, having googled with multiple attempts, can I ascertain if I have interpreted it correctly. It seems to me that Coralie lived in a completely different time frame, iei 25 years ago, and at the end, is now the oft-referred-to mansion ghost. Also, it appears to me that Coralie was the mother of Beatrice, ghose father must have been the horrible MARK Wincott, NOT Hank, as we had been led to believe through out the novel, and who was the one molesting Coralie. AM I RIGHT? I find it stunning that nowhere could I land on any spoilers that would explain the last chapter to me. I do hope the owner of this site sees my post so I can finally get an explanation. Thanks
Hi, Margo. I’m sorry I don’t have an answer for you. I read this quite a while ago, and many books since, so I can’t recall. I do hope you get the information you’re looking for.
Hi, I just read this book and was very confused by this last chapter. I also concluded that sheās the ghost and Beatriceās mother. I need to look back and see that coralie never refers to her Wincott as Hank and that Rowanās moments with Hankās assistant are always refers to the new girl and not Coralie.