About the Book:
When an heiress disappears from her superyacht and security footage shows her getting pushed, the main suspect has to prove her innocence in this thrilling mystery at sea told in reverse chronological order, perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Genuine Fraud.
It was supposed to be the best-ever girls’ trip: five days, four friends, one luxury yacht, no parents. But on the final night, as the yacht cruised the deep and dark waters between Florida and Grand Cayman, eighteen-year-old heiress Giselle vanished. She’s nowhere to be found the next morning even after a frantic search, until security footage surfaces . . . showing Maggie pushing her overboard.
But Maggie has no memory of what happened. All she knows is that she woke up with a throbbing headache, thousands of dollars in cash in her safe, a passport that isn’t hers, and Giselle’s diary. And while Maggie had her own reasons to want Giselle dead, so did everyone else on board: jealous Viv, calculating Emi, even some members of the staff.
What really went down on the top deck that night? Maggie will have to work her way backward to uncover the secrets that everyone—even Giselle—kept below deck or she’s dead in the water.
Jan Gangsei crafts a compulsively readable tale of privilege, family, and identity wrapped in a wholly original mystery that will keep readers on the edges of their seats until the final twist.
*Review Contributed by Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Everyone has secrets, and privileged girls from wealthy families seem to have more than most. When Giselle, the daughter of a senator and stepdaughter of a celebrity influencer, decides to take the family yacht from Key West to the Grand Cayman islands with her best friends from school, several of these secrets come to light with tragic results. Along for the trip is Maggie, whose sudden appearance at the girls’ prep school leads to questions about her background, Viv, who is an Instagram influencer in her own right, and Emi, who is Giselle’s long time best friend. The story starts on the last day of the trip, when Maggie wakes up in a hungover fog. No one has seen Giselle; she’s not joined Emi and Viv for their sunrise yoga. When she isn’t in her room and the crew hasn’t seen her, the girls check the boat’s surveillance camera… and see that she’s fallen overboard. Or, more accurately, Maggie has pushed her. The police are called, and Maggie, who has no memory of the event, tries to marshall her resources to try to piece together what has happened. Through police interviews, Giselle’s diary entries, and flashbacks, we get a better picture of what has occurred both on the trip and before it. Maggie was really kicked out of a Swiss boarding school, and her father isn’t a spy; he’s been overseas, but as a soldier, and has returned home with PTSD that has endangered the family’s survival. Not only that, but she uncovered a scandal at her school and managed to turn that into scholarship money for the prep school. Giselle, whose therapist suggested she keep a journal, misses her deceased mother and has a complicated and thorny relationship with her father and stepmother. Even Viv and Emi aren’t all they seem to be. As we see the trip unfolding backwards in a drunken haze of expensive champagne and ill-advised partying, we learn about secrets that could tear apart both the prep school and the girls’ carefully constructed personal lives. Will Maggie be able to figure out what happened to Giselle before the police do, and will her part in the senator’s daughter’s disappearance ever make sense?
*Find More Info & Buy This Book HERE!*
