| Summary |
"Cassie Woodson is adrift. After suffering an epic tumble down the corporate ladder, she finds that the only way to pay her bills is to take a thankless temp job reviewing correspondence in a large-scale fraud lawsuit. The daily drudgery amplifies all that her life is lacking--love, friends, stability--and leaves her with too much time on her hands, which she spends fixating on the mistakes that brought her to this point. While sorting through a relentless deluge of emails, something catches her eye: the tender (and totally private) exchanges between a partner at the firm, Forest Watts, and his enchanting wife Annabelle. Cassie knows she shouldn't read them. But it's just one look. And once that door opens, she finds she can't look away. Every day, twenty floors below Forest's corner office, Cassie disects the couple's emails from her dingy workstation. A few clicks of her mouse and she can see every adoring word they write to each other. By peeking into their apparently perfect life, Cassie finds renewed purpose and happiness, reveling in their penchant for morning juice presses, vintage wines, and lavish dinner parties thrown in ther stately Westchester home. There are no secets from her. Or so she thinks. Her admiration quickly escalates into all-out mimicry, because she wants this life more than anything. Maybe if she plays make-believe long enough, it will become real. But when Cassie orchestrates a chance meeting with Forest in the real world and sees something that throws the state of his marriage into question, the fantasy she's been carefully cultivating shatters. Suddenly, she doesn't simply admire Annabelle--she wants to take her place. And she's armed with the tools to make that happen"-- Dust jacket. |
| Other edition |
Online version: Cameron, Lindsay. Just one look. First edition New York : Ballantine Books, [2021] 9780593159064 |
| Subject |
Infatuation -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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| ISBN |
9780593159057
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0593159055
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