{"id":265,"date":"2022-08-25T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:16:44","slug":"the-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"The Arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/344233.Robyn_Harding\">Robyn Harding<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not go online and find a sugar daddy\u2014a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates, and even give her a monthly allowance? Lots of girls do it, Nat learns. All that\u2019s required is to look pretty and hang on his every word. Sexual favours are optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though more than thirty years her senior, Gabe, a handsome corporate finance attorney, seems like the perfect candidate, and within a month, they are madly in love. At least, Nat is\u2026Gabe already has a family, whom he has no intention of leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when he abruptly ends things, Nat can\u2019t let go. She begins drinking heavily and stalking him: watching him at work, spying on his wife, even befriending his daughter, who is not much younger than she is. But Gabe\u2019s not about to let his sugar baby destroy his perfect life. What was supposed to be a mutually beneficial arrangement devolves into a nightmare of deception, obsession, and, when a body is found near Gabe\u2019s posh Upper East Side apartment, murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have read a couple of Robyn Harding novels and she never fails to impress. This reminded me a little of Richard Flanagan&#8217;s The Unknown Terrorist, how it could so easy happen to any of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Harding July 2019 About: Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not go online and find a sugar daddy\u2014a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates, and even give her a monthly allowance? Lots of girls do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}