First published 2024
Mac and Ivy make their living crafting offbeat travel pieces about frog races and garlic festivals. When a lucrative memoir project lands in their laps, they expect easy money for ghostwriting one woman's life story. Instead, they discover their client plans to expose the dark secrets of her three famous ex-husbands. Each man wields considerable power and influence, and each has buried misdeeds he cannot afford to see published. As the memoir takes shape, the former husbands grow desperate. They resort to bribes first, then threats. But when those tactics fail, murder becomes an option. Mac and Ivy find themselves trapped in possession of dangerous knowledge. The woman's secrets could destroy three prominent lives, but sharing that information might cost Mac and Ivy their own.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
288 pages · Paperback · Rogue Ridge Press
Content warnings: murder