The Arrangement by author Robyn Harding is about a young woman's obsession with an older man. Natalie seems starved for love and has few friends. The Arrangement is well written and the subject is very interesting. The book opens with a call of distress from Natalie to her estranged father, she has been arrested for murder! Natalie is going to art school in New York and has lost her job. She is in dire financial need to pay her roommates the part of expenses she owes. Her friend Ava tells her about the possibility of making the money she needs by offering her time as an escort through an online site known as the Sugar Babies. Basically, she will hope to gain a safe financial 'sponsor' who will pay her for time spent as a companion for dates. If she allows the relationship to progress farther, that is her choice. Natalie has doubts about this type of dating with older men for compensation, but she is desperate for money and does not want to lose her scholarship. As I read the story, it was easy to understand Natalie is not very self-confident and she has made some poor choices in her personal life. Her arrangement should have been a professional one, but she just is not mature enough to discipline her feelings and soon things go very awry! There are twists in the story and once I started reading I could not stop until I had finished the entire book.
Publication Date: July 30, 2019
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.
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Photographs by Diane Lochala
"Beauty Adrift"
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