The Layover
Lacie Walker is a flight attendant on the brink of a wedding she keeps postponing, white-knuckling her way through long-haul shifts on no sleep and a glass of wine too many. On a routine flight she meets Ava Greene, a glamorous, magnetic stranger heading to Cancun, and within hours something between fascination and obsession has taken hold. When Ava disappears in Mexico, Lacie cancels her layover home and starts asking questions that no one in uniform is supposed to ask. The deeper she pushes, the more her own life unravels, including a fiance whose patience is wearing thin and a job she cannot afford to lose. Lacie Waters' suspense novel uses the strange, stateless world of international travel as its stage, where everyone is between identities and almost no one is who they say they are at thirty thousand feet.
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Two weeks before her wedding to her perfectly safe fiance, flight attendant Ava Greene is told she will not get her quiet last trips. Instead she is paired with her longtime crew nemesis Jack Stone for a Belize layover, where their hotel mistakes them for a honeymoon couple.
The most commonly searched is The Layover by Lacie Waldon (2021), a contemporary romance set on a flight crew layover. Several other novels share this title.
The Layover by Lacie Waldon contains some on-page content, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is contemporary romance with a flight-attendant protagonist.
The Layover by Lacie Waldon contains some on-page content, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is contemporary romance with a flight-attendant protagonist.
The Layover is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Layover takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
The Layover is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
The Layover is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.