num_pages: 326
description: Kate Moore is a working mother struggling to make ends meet to raise children to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life to start anew.She begins to reinvent herself as an expat finding her way in a language she doesnt speak doing the housewifely things shes never before doneplay-dates and coffee mornings daily cooking and unending laundry. Meanwhile her husband works incessantly doing a job Kate has never understood for a banking client shes not allowed to know. Hes becoming distant and evasive; shes getting lonely and bored.Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they claim to be and terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun; a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money; a complex web of intrigue where no one is who they claim to be and the most profound deceptions lurk beneath the most normal-looking of relationships; and a mind-boggling long-play con threatens her family her marriage and her life.
language: English
title: The Expats
publisher: Crown