This is my book club’s choice for November. I had heard of Freida McFadden and have been wanting to read her books for the longest time and I think this is a sign to read more of her work.  

This book is based on Brooke Sullivan, and she is the new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison and there are three rules she must always follow: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates. And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart – the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke’s testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. And he will never forget.  

This was an easy read with the fact that I had a guess on who it was from the beginning, I'm going to put that down to the fact that I've read a lot of thrillers and mystery books from Christ Carter to Alice Feeney, so when I got a feel of the chapters I knew who it was. The only thing that had me shocked from the epilogue from Josh, I was ready to rate this book three stars and then the epilogue happened. I would have loved this book to have multiple POV from Shane, Tim and Josh because they were key characters throughout the book. Once the answers started falling into place, the book moved quite quickly along, and it didn’t take me that long to read.  

Brooke was way too trusting, for a small town where everyone knew what happened and she was still getting crap for it, why on earth would you come back and then just let the guys from that night into your house and around your child? Again, she came back from New York, did she not think to ask around about the Nanny to see if she was not a creep? I just had so many questions? Did Shane break the inmate fingers? Who was beating him? Is this how he was being manipulative? Why was Tim worried about the police going down to his basement if he didn’t kill Kelli? We knew it was going to be one of the people from the night in the house, but I would have loved for it to be like someone’s ex-partner or family member or something that would have shocked me.  

This was an easy read with the fact that I had a guess on who it was from the beginning, I'm going to put that down to the fact that I've read a lot of thrillers and mystery books from Christ Carter to Alice Feeney, so when I got a feel of the chapters I knew who it was. It was an entertaining read, but I wasn’t shocked or freaked out like I usually am with psychological thriller, but I will give Freida another chance to surprise me.