In the quiet coastal town of Shorehaven, bestselling author Sara Holton thought her days of danger were behind her until a cryptic text message shatters her peace: You're the only one who can help me. The sender? Leanna Porrello, the wife of a notorious crime boss who vanished after her husband's arrest.

Now hiding just a few doors down on the notorious Arbor Bay Drive, Leanna has a desperate mission: to find her son, Nicholas, who is believed to have died in a mafia war fifteen years ago. But Leanna is convinced he's alive... and that he's the man behind a chillingly familiar novel—a novel only her son could have written.

Sara's search leads her to her elusive editor, Elijah Phillips, in the remote wilds of Jackson Hole. As sparks fly and secrets unfold, Sara begins to fall—not just for Elijah, but for the truth he's hiding. Because Elijah isn't who he claims to be.

When a single photograph rips apart everything she thought she knew, Sara is thrust into a dangerous world of deception, identity, and the haunting legacy of a criminal empire. And when she wakes up kidnapped, with Elijah watching her from across the room, her world changes forever.

Torn between love and loyalty, truth and survival, Sara must decide: can she trust a man who faked his death to escape his past? And is loving him worth becoming a target herself?