Introduction

Kate Livingston and Liza Kingsley have been best friends since their childhood in the suburbs of Chicago. They know everything about each other. Or do they?

When Liza sets up the newly divorced Kate with Michael Waller, an elegant man sixteen years her senior, neither woman expects Kate to fall for him so soon. The relationship is a whirlwind that enthralls Kate…and frightens Liza. Because Liza knows she may have introduced Kate to more than her dream man; she may have unwittingly introduced her to a dangerous world of secrets.

And yet Kate marries Michael and follows him to a French-Canadian town called St. Marabel, where she begins to suspect that Michael isn't exactly who he seems. As each new suspicion arises, Kate finds herself investigating her husband, but what she doesn't know is that she's about to steer her friendship with Liza on a collision course that will race from the U.S. to Russia and from Canada to Brazil, and the betrayals she uncovers could cause the end of all of them.

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Excerpt

“Only you can save your own life.
Everyone told me this in one version or another, during the very bleak days after Scott and I fell apart. I took the advice to heart. I did everything I could to rescue myself.
I prayed to a divinity I couldn’t see or feel. I logged hours on the couch. I cleansed. I twisted my body into awkward positions intended to purify. I scribbled and scrawled in journals. I read Goethe. I slept and wept. I watched comedies and dramas. I swore off TV. I ate organically. I drank toxically. I took up gardening. I ran until my legs could hardly hold me. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1. Do you think organizations like the Trust exist in our country? If not, could they? What do you think of Trust’s initial mission statement and goals?
2. At some point in the book, Kate says that long distance relationships are the toughest breed. Do you agree? Can long distance relationships work? Do you think Michael and Kate moved too fast?
3. Before reading this book, did you know about the Phoenix Program? (The Phoenix Program was a real, CIA-initiated program that operated during the Vietnam War. Its existence was classified until 1980). What did you think about what Michael had to do as part of the Phoenix Program?

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