What would you do if you found a briefcase full of cash? Would you turn it in?
What if you were on your last dime, your dead beat ex wasn't paying his share, you've lost your job and your child has special needs that come with a price tag.
Would you still hand it in, or would you listen to the devil on your shoulder?

Hilary is faced with many struggles through this book, and most have begun before we even meet her. She's a single mother, raising her son who has Aspergers, and is just making ends meet. She's fairly alone, with stand in parents in the form of an aunt and uncle and few, if any, close friends.

She witnesses a man swerve to miss a deer (PSA: Don't text and drive people!) and rushes down to assist the man out of the car. There's nothing she can do, but perhaps there's something she can do for herself and her son with that bag of money... but will there be strings attached to it?

The book is a thriller, with a fast paced narrative that sets up the reasons why Hilary may choose to take that money. You feel she's justified in her choices, and Andrew does a good job of gaining our sympathy and understanding for Hilary's predicament. We get her. We probably would do the same thing if we were her.

Where this book falls down for me is the way Aspergers is dealt with. It seems all too easy these days to use Aspergers as an indicator for psychopathic and callous behaviour in characters in a novel. Lack of empathy and blunted affect does not a serial killer make. I think its all too easy to rely on stereotypes of Aspergers in order to create a sense of malice and psychopathy in novels. I would have appreciated a more balanced view. I would have given it more stars if that was the case.