The Opportunist

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“I am Olivia Kaspen, and if I love something, I rip it from my life.”

That single line sets the scene for The Opportunist, a novel that thrives on damage, desire and the terrible things we do in the name of self-preservation. Of love. Olivia is a narrator who knows she is flawed and offers no apology for it. Love, for her, is a liability – something to be destroyed before it can destroy her. Something she pushes away before it can control her. Envelop her.

Three years after leaving Caleb Drake’s life, Olivia runs into him in a record store, bent over a box of CDs. Caleb is still Caleb: charming, radiant, the kind of man the world seems to bend towards without him even noticing. What stops Olivia cold is not just his presence, but the fact that he doesn’t recognise her at all. An accident stole his memory – and with it, any recollection of the woman who once shattered his heart.

She presses his favourite CD into his hands and lets him walk back out of her life. Again.

What follows is a story split between past and present. In the present, Olivia cautiously allows Caleb back into her orbit – a conversation, a coffee, a connection rebuilds. In the past, we see how it all began: the campus golden boy intrgued by the mystery girl. A beautiful, guarded, brilliant woman with no safety net, no family, no money, no room for mistakes. Caleb is distraction incarnate, and Olivia knows that loving him could cost her everything. Throw her life off balance.

Tarryn Fisher excels at emotional tension. Olivia is relationship-averse to the point of self-sabotage, kicking and punching people out of her life before they get the chance to hurt her. Her ambition is razor-sharp. Her fear of vulnerability even sharper. 

This is not a comfortable romance. It’s twisty, intense, and deeply addictive. This is a book that pulls you through jealousy, deceit, hurt and longing in one breathless rush. I read it in a single sitting, caught in the relentless emotional momentum. The first in the Love Me with Lies trilogy, I'll be booking some time in my reading calendar and hungrily reading them all.

Deborah Maclaren

About The Opportunist

When Olivia Kaspen spots her ex-boyfriend in a Miami record shop, she ignores good sense and approaches him. It's been three years since their breakup, but when Caleb reveals he's suffering from amnesia after a recent car accident, first she feels regret - and then opportunity. If he doesn't remember her, then he also doesn't remember her manipulation, her deceit, or the horrible way she broke his heart.

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