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If The Expat Affair finds its way to the screen, in my mind the casting wouldn’t start with the heroine or the villain or even the diamonds at the heart of the plot. It would start with the setting—Amsterdam.Visit Kimberly Belle's website and follow her on Facebook, Instagram & TikTok (@KimberlyBelleBooks).
The novel stars two women, both American expats living in Amsterdam. Newly divorced Rayna comes looking for adventure. What she finds instead is a one-night stand that ends in disaster: a dead man in the shower and a missing cache of diamonds that puts her in someone’s crosshairs. Enter Willow, a woman who’s been in the city long enough to learn which rules can be bent. On the surface, she has it all—an old-money marriage, fluency in the language and culture—but she still feels like an outsider. When her path collides with Rayna’s, the cracks in her carefully curated life begin to split wide open.
From a director’s point of view, this book would be...[read on]
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