To flee a extremely publicized household disaster, a champion skier
travels to Argentina, the place she joins a group of expats who, like her, are
hiding darkish secrets and techniques.
Katie Cleary hops a aircraft to Buenos Aires on a whim and reinvents
herself as Liz Sullivan, a tour information with a damaged coronary heart. In actuality, her previous
is far more sinister. In alternating chapters, she recounts the occasions that
led her to desert her Olympic dream, depart her household behind, and break up
along with her boyfriend, Luke Duncan, who’s a fellow skier and a longtime household
good friend. Glimpses of Katie’s childhood along with her beloved sister, Penny, supply
tantalizing clues as to what went incorrect and why they’re now estranged. As
Katie’s life falls aside, Luke’s brother, Blair, emerges because the supportive
good friend—and perhaps extra—that she couldn’t discover in Luke. In the meantime, in Buenos
Aires, Liz meets Edward and Gemma, a pair of rich expats who welcome her
into their “Buenos Aires Lonely Hearts Society.” By means of them, she meets the
mysterious and brooding Gianluca, who teaches her to tango. Reducing in on a
love triangle with the 2 brothers, Gianluca’s dance classes someway have much less
hearth than Liz’s reminiscences of dwelling despite the fact that they result in a really steamy fling.
However when the previous lastly catches up along with her and her group, Katie learns extra
about Gianluca, his associates, and his nation than meets the attention, placing all
their sordid tales into new perspective and clearing the best way for therapeutic,
forgiveness, and a return journey dwelling.
The twisty journey to the underside is heartbreaking and compulsively
readable.
