Monaco

on the sunlit shores of the french riviera, paradise hides its darkest secrets.after twenty years of marriage, ryan and meg are running on empty, buried under work, kids, and years of quiet resentment. desperate to rekindle what's been lost, ryan surprises meg with a dream getaway to the french riviera, hoping the beauty of the coast will remind them why they fell in love. but before they even leave home, a shadow from meg's past resurfaces, one capable of shattering their fragile peace and turning their romantic escape into a reckoning neither of them saw coming.across the sea in nice, twenty-something hailey arrives with her friends, chasing sun, freedom, and adventure. when she meets a charming stranger who promises her a taste of monte carlo's elite world, it feels like the beginning of a fairytale. but beneath the champagne sparkle lies something far darker, and hailey soon realizes she's stumbled into a trap she may not escape.as two women's lives collide on the glittering riviera, love, loyalty, and survival intertwine in a gripping tale where every secret has a price, and every paradise hides its predators."a gripping, elegantly written thriller that blends love, danger, and deception against the dazzling backdrop of the riviera," the international review of books.