About This Book
Alicia arrives in London carrying a secret she's determined no one will find — not her colleagues, not the wealthy clientele, and certainly not the magnetic man who offers her a deal too good to refuse. When the owner of The Orbit, an exclusive high-rise club, asks her to play his girlfriend in exchange for a lavish salary and apartment, it seems like the kind of opportunity that only happens in other people's lives. But Alicia is good at performing, good at controlling what people see. The question is whether she can keep that control when the lines between pretend and real begin to dissolve around her.
K.L. Slater works the psychological thriller formula with precision — short chapters, a mounting sense of dread, and a protagonist whose unreliability keeps readers second-guessing every interaction. The pleasure here is in the layering: Alicia is simultaneously hunter and hunted, manipulator and mark, and Slater peels back those contradictions slowly enough to keep the tension taut. The setting of a glittering urban playground full of people hiding their own agendas gives the novel a claustrophobic energy that rewards readers who pay close attention to what characters don't say.