Mara Bennett is good at managing crises. At work, she can take a collapsing campaign and turn it into a win before anyone else has finished panicking. At home, however, the cracks in her marriage to Daniel are harder to control. One reckless night with Adrian Wolfe gives Mara a secret she is desperate to bury and gives Adrian something he refuses to let go. What Mara believed was a mistake becomes an obsession. Messages arrive. Adrian appears where he should not be. He watches her son Oliver's soccer games, inserts himself into her routines, and turns shame into leverage. Mara's oldest friend Chloe, a private investigator, starts digging into Adrian's past and finds enough to make the threat feel frighteningly real. Then Chloe disappears, and the danger stops looking like harassment. As Mara finally tells Daniel the truth, her marriage becomes both another casualty and her only possible line of defense. The police want evidence. Adrian understands how to stay just outside the line of what they can prove. And when a murder investigation begins pointing back toward Mara, even the people she needs to trust have reasons to doubt her. Personal belongings have been disturbed. Her DNA appears where it should not be. Every secret she kept to preserve her family now makes her look more guilty. To clear her name and protect Oliver, Mara must expose a man who seems to anticipate every move she makes. But the closer she gets to proving she is being framed, the more dangerous the trap becomes. Adrian wanted Mara to choose him. Now he may be determined to make sure she has nothing else left to choose.
Mara Bennett is good at managing crises. At work, she can take a collapsing campaign and turn it into a win before anyone else has finished panicking. At home, however, the cracks in her marriage to Daniel are harder to control. One reckless night with Adrian Wolfe gives Mara a secret she is desp...