Anne Marie Callahan is on the run - from herself. After her best friend is involved in a tragic accident, she assumes different identities - first, Cass Ford, and then later as the mysterious best-selling author, Cate Kay. With interweaving accounts from multiple characters, Fagan explores themes of love, identity, and the courage to face yourself.

These characters were stunning. Through all their flaws and tragedies, Fagan manages to give them depth, emotion, and connection that makes them quite memorable. Through all the timeline shifts and changing points of views, the book could have been confusing, but Fagan is masterful in how she crafts this story.

While there was a plot point or two that drove me crazy, overall, this story shines. I was a big fan of Fagan’s nonfiction/journalistic writing in What Made Maddy Run, but this book also demonstrates that Fagan has true talent in the fictional genre as well. I am excited to see if she continues to write fictionally, and this book is also the prompt I need to finally pick up another one of her books currently on my bookshelf: All the Colors Came Out.