We’re introduced to Paloma who has been adopted by her American parents from her Sri Lankan orphanage when she’s 14! If she hasn’t been saved by them ,next year she may have sent to St.

The story is divided between two time lines and two countries : 18 years ago at Sri Lankan orphanage and present time/ San Francisco-CA I’m still smiling! The author fooled me twice and shame on me!!! There are too many jaw dropping twists! I guessed the big one in the middle of the book! But the ending.oh that freaking, WTH ending is truly unexpected punch on my face! My spider senses could never ever caught it! I’m still soooo shocked! This is smart! This is cunning! So twisty, so mind bending, so deliciously dark, vicious, outstandingly unputdownable! I proudly announce the best of the best debut of the year! Oh my.oh.my.oh.my.argh! This.is.freaking.fantastic. Happy pub day to this mind blowing debut! Did Paloma’s secret die with Arun or is she now in greater danger than ever before? Paloma is terrified this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago. She flees the apartment but by the time the police arrive, there's no body-and no evidence that Arun ever even existed in the first place. Paloma has to admit, it feels good helping someone find their way in America-that is until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country.īefore Paloma can pay Arun off, she finds him face down in a pool of blood. Now at thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents’ funds, she decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun, who recently moved from India. Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you…Įver since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything-schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them.

My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa