by Nora Roberts
First published 2021
Adrian Rizzo meets her father when she turns seven. He tries to kill her before her mother Lina intervenes. Adrian spends that summer at her grandparents' Maryland home, befriending the neighbor girl and crushing on her ten-year-old brother. Lina builds a fitness empire worth billions while Adrian grows up mostly apart from her. Years later, Adrian launches her own yoga and workout video line. She wants creative control, unlike her distant but successful mother. Then the death threats arrive. Vicious rhymes in changing postmarks follow Adrian for years. Lina dismisses them as celebrity harassment, but Adrian feels unsettled. The threats continue even after Adrian returns to Maryland and reconnects with Raylan, her childhood crush now grown into a green-eyed man. The messages seem routine until people start dying. The killer escalates, and Adrian realizes someone from her traumatic past has returned to finish what her father started.
Genres: romance, suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Maryland
434 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: abuse, child-abuse, violence