by Nora Roberts
First published 2020
Ten-year-old Caitlyn Sullivan already shines as a Hollywood star, but she treasures simple moments playing hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family ranch in Big Sur. During one game, she vanishes. Her abductors underestimate this daughter of Hollywood royalty. Cate proves scrappy and clever, escaping to find refuge in teenager Dillon Cooper's ranch house kitchen. His family shelters the bruised, frightened girl and helps reunite her with her loved ones. The ordeal reveals a devastating betrayal that sends someone Cate trusted to prison. Years pass in protective exile in Ireland, but restlessness grows within her. She returns to Los Angeles determined to reclaim her acting career and overcome the trauma that shattered her childhood. Two forces now shape her destiny from that terrible night: a love that could heal her and a vengeance that threatens everything she's rebuilt.
Genres: romance, suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, second-chance
Setting: Big Sur, Ireland, Los Angeles
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
454 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: child-abuse, kidnapping