Beware the family secrets. Sometimes those truths are deadly . . .

Small-town Connecticut art teacher Ellie James finally finds the intense connection she’s longing for when she meets Will Hastings, a handsome foreigner with a powerful, alluring darkness, at the town’s old fishing pier. But just days later, England’s brutal past collides with the present, and Ellie discovers the bodies of her murdered sister and grandmother. There’s no one to reveal the truth about what happened, not even the police, and there’s nowhere to run. Not until Will arrives. If she and her young niece Lissie are to survive, Ellie must confront the unthinkable: is he a man she can trust, a murderer—or both?

In a desperate move after surviving another near-fatal attack, she flees across the Atlantic with Will. There, danger follows and London paparazzi call her by a different name. But who wants her dead, and why? Soon, stunning realities about Ellie’s family emerge, obsessive love refuses to be denied, and betrayals unravel—and ultimately, she must find the strength to disentangle herself from the haunting lies she’s lived for twenty-seven years.