By: Barbara Cop
Barbara Copperthwaite
Many thanks to Bookouture for the ARC of this and the stop on the book tour!
About the Book
Six friends. One storm. A secret to die for…
We arrived at the beautiful, sprawling Spanish villa ready to celebrate – over twenty years of friendship, and of course, Alexis’s big birthday. It’s paradise. Alexis has pulled out all the stops, and like always, I know we’re meant to be grateful…
But the tensions begin on the very first night.
The workaholic slipping off to take mysterious calls. The people pleaser afraid to speak out. The quiet observer snidely analysing every move we make. The former life of the party knocking back wine to forget it all. Even I, the peacekeeper, have secrets…
And of course, Alexis, the Queen Bee – furious that, as a summer storm descends, her perfect trip isn’t working out like she planned… Her fury makes it feel like she’s hiding something. Like her schemes are unravelling…
I thought our secrets finally emerging might be the biggest threat on this trip. But on the last night, I wake up on the cold floor of the locked wine cellar, a knife clutched in my hand and Alexis’s body unmoving beside me.
I want to scream, to cry, to run, but with the floodwater rising, we’re trapped. My friends all think I killed her. But I know I didn’t, which means someone else here did…
My Review
What a book this was! This is a twisted drama wherein you don’t know who has what secrets and what are going to be revealed and when. The amount of secrets this group of friends has is astronomical, but it was so fun to read about them and read about their reveals.
I will say, with all the different perspectives, the jumping timelines from when the trip started, to the present, to going back even further, it stalled the pace a little bit. I was all over the in the now chapters and the chapters that were the start of the trip.
I have a few things that I loved about this book. Like I said, I loved all the secrets and their reveals. I also loved learning about the girls’ friendships. How long they have been friends and their dynamics.
There were so many options as to the whodunit aspect of this book, I couldn’t figure it out! That was fun too!
This is out now, so get your hands on it!
Publish Date: March 30, 2026
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About the Author
Barbara Copperthwaite is an international bestselling author. She has hit the number one spot on both Amazon and Kobo and she is also a USA Today bestseller. Her writing career started in journalism. For over twenty years Barbara worked for national magazines and newspapers, talking to the real victims of crime – and also to those who carried out crimes. Her fiction reflects this: she creates realistic, complex characters and explores the emotional impact of difficult situations. She is currently writing her seventh psychological thriller for Bookouture. When not writing feverishly at her home in Birmingham, UK, Barbara loves walking her two dogs, Scamp and Buddy, or taking wildlife photographs, which she then uses as inspiration for drawings.
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