There are two stories being told throughout this book, that of Geneva, whose point of view the reader follows, down on her luck inn owner who is struggling to stay afloat in St. Medard’s Bay.

Eve finds a number of tapes her mother had recorded a diary of sorts on throughout her life many years after her mother had disappeared – presumed dead – an idea intriguing enough in itself and which had me very interested in reading this book.

First of all, thank you to the devs and keymailer for the gifted game key for Discounty!
Discounty was a game I was super excited to get to play and it ended up being the cozy, enjoyable little game I was expecting with a bit of a twist that I wasn’t. For a game that looks so cozy, it actually has a meaningful, kind of almost dark story to it as there is an underlying tale of greed from the small town people who can be guilty of only looking out for themselves and not their town.

This Stays Between Us forces a group of friends who met abroad to face their pasts and the death that occurred of one of their group members a decade before.The tension of the story telling is amped up, not only by the group of friends trying to discover who really killed their friend Phoebe all those years ago – a killer that the police believe to be one of them – but also by the fact that the past is being told alongside the present from Phoebe’s point of view throughout the course of the book.

This is a book I have been highly anticipating and it did not fail to meet my expectations and even exceed them. I am a sucker for dark fantasy romance and Rose in Chains was the perfect recipe with a dark, morally grey male lead and a strong, unafraid to fight back against her circumstances female lead who tests the MMC at every turn.