One of the hundred books a year I read:

Lee Gulliver lived her dream life, until the pandemic closed the New York restaurant she owned leaving her buried in debt, some owed to an unsavory character. She disappeared, leaving behind friends and family, and found herself on the west coast living in her car. One morning she wakes to the sounds of a drowning woman in the Seattle surf.

Hazel had wealth, but walked into the ocean to escape the abuse from her husband, Benjamin Lavel. She hadn’t counted on a homeless woman saving her life. Nor had she counted on building a friendship with the stranger.

But is the meeting as accidental as it first appears? Both become involved with an attractive man with a mysterious past, Jesse Thomas. He devises a scheme to help Hazel escape her husband and Lee recover her life, but he must be lying to one of them. And, if that’s true, one of the women is lying too.

When a dead body turns up, the twisted mystery becomes dangerous for both women.