Is there anything scarier than realizing that your home is not safe? That it’s been violated? That someone has gone through your things? All the worst by, well, nothing big really happening. Mimi and Jay’s friendship begins with the shared cottage and the odd happenings. It says a lot about her father that he never tells her that he had given permission to Jay to use it as a studio and he never tells Mimi about Jay at all. Suddenly, the story shifts to Mimi in her car, on an adventure, a road trip, to the cottage her father hasn’t seen in over twenty years. The prologue ends with his mother demanding he steal a necklace. The reader would think, then, that this is Cramer’s story so that he is the hero. At twenty two, he’s in low wage jobs because instead of going away to college he stayed home to take care of his mother. Cramer is always there to pick up the pieces, to work the steady jobs to pay the bills. Cramer’s mother is an artist, who has good moments and bad moments and tends to have bad boyfriends. The prologue begins with Cramer’s story, a young man whose life is all about taking care of his mother. There are three main characters to this story: Mimi, Jay, and Cramer Lee, the watcher. The Good: Count this as one of those hard to write reviews, because I don’t want to give too much away! What Mimi and Jay don’t know, as they eye each other with suspicion, is that someone is watching from the shadows.
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