The Dilemma by B.A. Paris

Livie is having the giant 4oth birthday party she always dreamed of and it would be perfect except her oldest daughter is in Hong Kong and can't make it home. Adam, her husband gets a call from Marnie who is flying multiple connections to get to the party in time but something horrible is about to happen. The story is told in alternating chapters between Livie and Adam who are dealing with way too many secrets. Their younger son is just trying to keep his parents and his own life on some sort of normal. What should be a day of celebration ends up everyone's worst nightmare. While I was all in on the surprise trip gone wrong and the family dealing with the worst kind of grief, I had a hard time connecting with the characters. There were so many horrible secrets that were being glossed over and not one solid marriage in their whole friend group.