The Opportunist -- Elyse Friedman - Paperback

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world's most devious family.

When Alana Shropshire's seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, his twenty-eight-year-old nurse, a flurry of messages arrive from Alana's brothers, urging her to help "protect Dad" from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father's fortune, and she tells them she couldn't care less about the May-December romance. Long estranged from her privileged family, Alana, a hardworking single mom, has more important things to worry about.

But when Ed and Kelly's wedding is announced, Teddy and Martin kick into hyperdrive and persuade Alana to fly to their father's West Coast island retreat to perform one simple task in their plan to make the gold digger go away. Kelly, however, proves a lot more wily than expected, and Alana becomes entangled in an increasingly dangerous scheme full of secrets and surprises. Just how far will her siblings go to retain control?

Smart, entertaining and brimming with shocking twists and turns, The Opportunist is both a thrill ride of a story and a razor-sharp view of who wields power in the world.

Author: Elyse Friedman
Publisher: Mira Books
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780778386957

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 4
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 25