by Nora Roberts
First published 2023
Morgan Albright has built a stable life in Baltimore. She tends bar, shares mortgage payments with roommate Nina, and feels settled after years as an Army brat. When she invites Luke, an IT worker who flirts with her at the bar, to a dinner party, everything changes. Morgan wakes to find her home ransacked, her car stolen, and Nina dead on the floor. The FBI reveals the brutal truth. Luke is actually Gavin, a con artist who targets specific women to steal their identities and kill them. Nina died because she was in the way. Morgan was the real target. Now Gavin remains free, hunting other victims while Morgan flees to Vermont. She stays with her mother and tries to rebuild. She meets Miles Jameson, whose family runs a local business. Unlike Gavin, Miles is steady rather than flashy. But Morgan knows Gavin still searches for the woman who escaped him.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Baltimore, Vermont
437 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: murder, violence