Too Good to Be True

At the beginning of Too Good to Be True, when Skye’s older (much older!) boyfriend Burke proposes to her, it’s pretty clear he's hiding something from her. But Skye ignores the warning signs because she’s too swept up in the glitter and excitement—celebratory dinners with girlfriends, the diamond-and-sapphire ring on her finger—and, besides, she’s plain old relieved. Before she met Burke, she always had bad romantic luck. And with so many of her friends pairing off, Skye had begun to worry that she might be alone forever.

But maybe Skye shouldn’t be reaching for her happily-ever-after so quickly. When the story switches perspectives, we learn that Burke has been misleading her: he has a whole separate life, where he's married with kids. Why is he lying to Skye? What does he have planned? And when we meet Heather—the smart, ambitious young woman who, thirty years earlier, broke up with Burke in high school—we start to wonder how his past deceptions might be linked to those of the present.

I read this book fast, propelled forward by twist after twist. Skye, Burke, and Heather all have secrets to keep. They're all good at hiding things—and they all have reasons for hiding those things. Just when I thought I had a handle on one of them, a new surprise would shift my perspective. Too Good to Be True doesn't leave you with easy answers, but that's what makes it so much fun. Maybe you would never go as far as Burke goes, but then again ... maybe you would? Crack it open and decide for yourself!

Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips?she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family?she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.

But now Burke?handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she’s met before?says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn’t who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he’s happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends.

In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past?or will he find his way into her future?

On a collision course she doesn’t see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke’s scheme grows ever more twisted. But of course, even the best laid plans can go astray. And just when you think you know where this story is going, you’ll discover that there’s more than one way to spin the truth.