Rock Paper Scissors
Amelia and Adam Wright win a weekend getaway to a remote converted chapel in the Scottish Highlands. Their marriage is crumbling, but both hope the trip will give them a fresh start. Instead, they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm, isolated, and forced to confront the secrets they've kept from each other. What begins as an uneasy retreat spirals into something much darker, where truth, betrayal, and revenge all come to the surface.
- Amelia - Adam's wife
- Adam - Amelia's husband
- Robin - Chapel caretaker and Adam's first wife
- Adam suffers from prosopagnosia (face blindness).
- The story alternates between present events and anniversary letters signed "Your wife."
- Adam and Amelia travel to a remote chapel in the Scottish Highlands for a weekend getaway they "won."
- The chapel belongs to Robin who now works there as caretaker.
- Robin orchestrated the trip to win Adam back.
- Years earlier, Adam, while joyriding in a stolen car with an unknown girl, accidentally killed his mother. Because of his face blindness, he never knew who the girl was.
- The anniversary letters were written by Robin, not Amelia.
- While everyone is at the chapel Robin tells Adam that Amelia was the girl he went joyriding with.
- A fight ensues between Adam and Ameila.
- Robin stabs Amelia with a pair of scissors, eliminating her rival.
- In the end, Adam and Robin reunite as a couple, and Adam finds closure about his mother's death.
- Amelia - Dead - Stabbed with scissors by Robin
- Adam - Alive - Remarried to Robin
- Robin - Alive - Remarried to Adam and continuing to write under Henry Winter's name
- Henry - Dead - His cause of death is not specified
- Death of parent
- Car accident
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Miscarriage
- Animal death
- Suicide
- Sexual content
Hopeful
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 9781250266101
Publish Date: September 7, 2021
Note: Details are for the original edition. Other formats, editions, and audiobook versions may be available.