When Amy Gibson's mother is brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Amy's world is completely undone. Overcome with grief and heartache, she withdraws from everything around her - college, her friends, her entire life. Until her estranged half-brother, Oliver, saves her, pulling her back into her life and giving her family. Giving her a home.
Eight years later, she's picked herself up and has worked hard to move forward. She’s the host of a popular true crime podcast that focuses on crimes against women committed by their partners and is finding purpose and healing through helping women in ways she couldn't help her mother.
And then Oliver is accused of the unthinkable - something that is so unlike him. Something that horrifies Amy. But desperate to save the only family she has, she sets out to prove her brother's innocence.
But as the days pass and more information about Oliver and his past slowly comes to light, Amy begins realizing that nothing is ever as it seems - especially when it comes to family.
Amy's mother was murdered by her boyfriend when Amy was in university. She falls into a deep hole and Oliver, her half-brother, takes care of her and gets her back on track. Eight years later Amy is a podcaster with a focus on crimes against women by their partners (in honour of her mother). Amy is still close with Oliver so is shocked when he is arrested for the attempted murder of his girlfriend. It doesn't look good for Oliver because it brings up his past ... his university girlfriend had committed suicide and his wife had disappeared and is presumed dead. Suspecting her brother is being framed, Amy works with Dean, his lawyer's investigator, to prove his innocence.
This is the first book I've read by this author and I thought it was okay. I liked the writing style, though I found it a bit draggy at times. It is written in first person perspective in Amy's voice. I liked Amy well enough but considering her podcasts are about women being murdered, she made a couple dumb dangerous mistakes. The storyline became farfetched a couple times but I went with it. I liked that it was set in Ontario/Canada and didn't hide it. As a head's up, there is swearing.
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