This was an interesting read that kept me interested through the characters even when the plot wasn't quite there for me.

Everybody is a thing of beauty. Believe it or not, behave like it or not.

Fia Hume, a former Hollywood child star, is living in the prison of her own making - alone in her big house, almost penniless, with very little of social contacts and all of them under serious scrutiny of being safe with them. No wonder, given the painful past.
But it is time to change. And impulse comes from outside - her mother is publishing tell-all book inculding the details of "divorce" of then 16-year-old Fia from her parents, also movie stars. Financially struggling Fia needs money to be presentable on the camera when counterattacking this situation with the open interview of her own. So she opens her house for the roommate - sweet, loving older gentleman called Josia. This starts the cracks in the walls of her heart, allowing her to see that there is still love waiting even for her, the way she is.

Honestly, I was hoping for more here. I love Lisa Samson immersely - and most of this love comes to feeling so much connection to her books, plots and characters (even the male ones). Here, I find it difficult to connect to message - I mean, I am more than able to connect to the loneliness, prison of their own making and distrust. But I am not able to conect to the message of unconditional love and forgiveness - not because I don’t believe to these things per se, but because, to be frank, I don’t think that the authoress herself was completely in that place of hope when writing the book. I recognize the pain here.

But this book is a good reminder of the silent suffering amongst the people - the loneliness. That we want so much to protect ourselves and we hope against hope that somebody will still try to find us, even if we fight them when trying to find us. I want this be my personal reminder to leave my walls in searching for the fellow humans.