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Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Adam and Amelia, a married couple whose marriage is on the rocks, travel to a converted chapel at Blackwater Loch in the Scottish Highlands. Amelia won a free stay there from a contest at work, they are heading into a snow storm, and they know nothing about the chapel or the area. What could go wrong in an Alice Feeney novel with this scenario?

Interspersed with chapters from Adam's perspective and Amelia's perspective are anniversary letters that Adam's wife writes to him. These letters are her true feelings about each past year of marriage, detailing how she really feels about their marriage and the way Adam treats her in comparison to how he seems to feel about anything related to his career as a screenwriter. She knows that his job comes first, it's everything to him, but she's still there, year after year.

Nothing is as it seems and with Adam and Amelia at such odds before they even get to the chapel, it doesn't help that so much doesn't seem to go right once they are there. Strange things start happening, the electricity goes off, there are weird sounds, a face in a window, the phones don't work, things are not right. Is it really one of them or is it someone or something else? I'd think I might have an inkling to what was going on but really I was mostly confused, suspicious, and was totally clueless to the main twist. The way the chapters were presented worked to keep me from figuring things out and I liked that about this story.

Publication September 7, 2021

Thank you to Macmillan Publishers/Flatiron Books and NetGalley for this ARC.