The letters further reveal that Robin has since learned that Amelia was the one in the car that killed Adam's mother. He and Robin had a bad relationship since he was a bully, but she asked him to let Adam adapt his novels.
In another plot twist, it turns out the chapel belongs to Henry Winter, who is Robin's father. He and Amelia married right after the divorce. Amelia was the friend that Adam cheated with.
Later, in a big plot twist, we learn that Robin is actually Adam's first wife (all the letters are written by her, not Amelia). The letters culminate in describing how Adam cheated on her with her best friend from work. Meanwhile, interspersed throughout the book are letters addressed to Adam (but never sent) each year on their anniversary detailing their relationship history. At the chapel, Amelia and Adam find there are strange occurrences (thanks mostly to Robin) and power outages. He has reoccuring nightmares about his mother being killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was 13. Adam is a screenwriter who is known for adapting the novels of a writer named Henry Winter.
There's also a woman named Robin living in a cottage nearby. (Sept.The two-paragraph version: Amelia and Adam are on a getaway, staying at an old chapel. In contrast to His & Hers, some may walk away from this one feeling more snookered than satisfied. Feeney’s signature misdirection sets up gasp-worthy twists down the stretch even if they, like the characters, come off as arbitrary and artificial.
The plot takes some perilous turns in ways both predictable-a power outage, dangerously loose stones in the wall of the chapel’s belfry-and not, as alternating narrations from the trio open a Pandora’s box packed with secrets, lies, and betrayals. Each harbors darker agendas for the weekend, as does the mysterious, hermit-like neighbor, Robin, who frightens Amelia when Amelia catches the woman peering at her through a chapel window. Londoners Amelia and Adam Wright, the couple at the center of this craftily plotted if flawed domestic thriller from bestseller Feeney ( His & Hers), are spending the weekend at spooky Blackwater Chapel in the Scottish Highlands on what is meant to be a last-ditch effort to save their 10-year marriage.
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