First published 2024
David Bowers owns the local pub in Hemingway Grove, Illinois. His wife Marcie left her big-city legal career to practice family law in their small town. They have two children together. When David dives into Cotton River to rescue a drowning stranger, the media celebrates his heroic act. News outlets broadcast images of his muscular build, bald head, and bright blue eyes across the country. The sudden attention transforms David from small-town business owner into national hero. But fame brings danger David never expected. Marcie watches her husband handle his new celebrity status and begins questioning everything she thought she knew about him. The man who shares her bed and raises their children may be hiding a lethal past. Marcie must decide whether David is the loving father and husband she married or something far more dangerous. Her legal training taught her to evaluate evidence, but when the stakes involve her family's survival, distinguishing truth from deception becomes a matter of life and death.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Hemingway Grove, Illinois, Cotton River
Period: contemporary
384 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company
Content warnings: domestic-violence