The New Novel
Emily Stockton spent nine years making the house on the bluff beautiful, and nine years believing the man she married meant the promises he made inside it. The divorce ended the second illusion. The house is next.
One clause in the decree gives her a last chance to make Cole pay: every dollar of damage he let the place suffer comes out of his share, not hers. All she has to do is move back onto the property, live fifty yards from her ex-husband and his new fiancée, and prove it. But the deeper she gets into the walls, the less it looks like neglect. Cole has been hiding something in that house, and he has always been very good at smiling while he lies.
Then there's Abigail Redford: composed, magnetic, engaged to the man who broke Emily's life apart, and somehow always nearby when Emily finds something she shouldn't. Emily came back to settle a debt. She never planned on wanting anything from the woman sleeping in her old bedroom.
Content guidance
- Explicit sexual content
- Infidelity
