The Perfect Ones

A picture-perfect trip goes horribly wrong in  this fast-paced exploration of friendship and the dark side of social  media, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Andrea Bartz.

Everyone wants to be them, but internet fame comes at a price…

Two  days after arriving in Iceland for a promotional trip, Instagram  influencer Alabama Wood goes missing. With no leads, the Icelandic  police start their investigation by focusing on the two influencers  seemingly closest to Alabama on the trip: Celeste Reed, Alabama’s best  friend of ten years, and Hollie Goodwin, fitness guru and Alabama's  unwilling idol.

Celeste and Alabama have grown apart recently  because Celeste has been too distracted by her five-year-old’s  behavioral issues and her husband’s refusal to admit that there’s a  problem. What Celeste doesn’t tell them is how she has been coping with  these worries and how it involves Alabama in ways no one would guess.

On  the outside, Hollie appears to have everything—the husband, the body,  and over one million Instagram followers. In reality, however, Hollie  came to Iceland to escape the implosion of her life behind the screen.  The only person who suspected something amiss behind Hollie’s precisely  filtered pictures is Alabama.

As secrets are revealed and  loyalties are tested, debut author Nicole Hackett asks: do we control  our online image, or does it control us?