| When Roy meets Betty, a wealthy widow online, he can hardly believe his luck. Just like Patricia Highsmiths Tom Ripley, Roy is a con man who lives to deceiveand everything about Betty suggests shes an easy mark. Hes confident that his scheme to swindle her will be a success. After all, hes done this before. Sure enough, Betty soon lets Roy move into her beautiful home, seemingly blind to the web of lies hes woven around her. But who is Roy, really? Spanning almost a century, this stunning and suspenseful feat of storytelling interweaves the present with the past. As the clock turns back and the years fall away, long-hidden secrets are forced into the light. Some things can never be forgotten. Or forgiven. |