What left a bad taste in your mouth KP
WARNING PLOT GIVE AWAY
OK, Part 1 is Boy meets Girl. The story is told from his perspective with parts of her diary. Her diary leading up to the 'event', his starting the day of the 'event'.
She disappears, is she dead, but no body. The scene is staged, is it the husband? He follows a treasure hunt of clues from his missing wife. All of the evidence points to the husband having killed her but it is all circumstantial. He knows he is being framed and is being framed by his missing wife.
Part 2 is Girl meets Boy. This is her account of how and why she framed her husband. She squirrelled cash away over 1 year, bought a used car and kept it hidden.
She had framed others in the past, a friend at school and an ex boyfriend. The detail and lengths she goes to are scary because they could be possible. She controls people like a puppet master.
She loses her cash and turns to the ex boyfriend for help, telling him wrongly that her H beat and abused her. The boyfriend takes her to his mansion (yeah, I know, we all have friends with mansions) and she realises he will keep her there. She again plans. She ties herself up daily to make marks on her wrists and ankles, she abuses herself with a wine bottle so that she can claim rape - totally sick. She then kills the boyfriend and goes back to the husband.
Early on she said she couldn't get pregnant so they went for fertility treatment although they went no further than freezing husbands sperm. Husband thought the sperm to be destroyed but once she had returned from the 'dead' she used the sperm to become pregnant.
The story ends with she and husband trying to control one another and a baby on the way.
In a way it is a clever scenario as there is no happy ending, just a very sick stalemate.
I wish you'd hurry up and receive yours. I'm reading something nice and fluffy now, that will have a happy ever after.
Once again, the book club has taken me away from what I'd usually read.
