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Perfect Life

by Meredith Lavender

A hidden past unsettles a Florida life

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A hidden past unsettles a Florida life

Set among the lakefront estates of Winter Park, Florida, *Perfect Life* builds its domestic thriller around Este Walker’s carefully remade life. Five years after leaving California, she has settled into a wealthy social world with her husband, Beau, and friend Nora—until someone from her past reappears and a mysterious death implicates Beau. The investigation brings two questions together: what happened in California, and what is Beau concealing? The book’s central tension comes from the collision of Este’s hidden history with uncertainty inside her marriage, as she tries to make sense of the death and the deception surrounding it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy domestic thrillers involving marriage, secrets, and a murder investigation.
  • Readers interested in stories where a protagonist’s concealed past resurfaces.
  • Readers drawn to affluent Florida settings and mysteries built around deception.

Themes

Hidden pastsMarital trustDeceptionMurder investigationReinvention

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Book overview

Following a shocking murder, a woman must face the husband she thought she knew in this twisty, sizzling novel from the bestselling authors of Happy Wife.

"Waterfront setting? Check! Long-buried secrets? Check! Simmering danger? Absolutely."--Woman's World


Welcome back to Winter Park, where looks can kill and secrets refuse to stay buried.

Este Walker didn't move to Florida to make friends. Five years ago, she ghosted her life in California to reinvent herself among the lakefront estates of Florida's elite. With a cocktail in hand, more money than she could ever spend, and a past she intends to keep hidden, she's finally content--or, you know, close enough. Her husband, Beau, and her best friend, Nora, are the only company Este needs.

But when someone she'd much rather forget resurfaces, the past begins to close on her. And then a mysterious death turns Winter Park upside down--and Beau, who's keeping secrets of his own, is implicated, . Thrust into a high-stakes murder investigation, Este must unravel a web of lies and deception to answer the question: What exactly happened in California, and has it come back to haunt her? More important: How is she going to get herself out of this mess?
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