First published 2011
Nina Bloom practices law in New York and raises her daughter with careful precision. She has spent eighteen years guarding the truth about her former life in Key West, where she lived as a different woman married to a police officer. Back then, she discovered she was pregnant and felt pure joy until she uncovered a devastating secret that forced her to abandon everything and assume a new identity. Now an innocent man faces murder charges, and Nina knows the real killer walks free. She cannot let this happen, even though helping means exposing herself. Nina must return to Florida and face the deadly truth she escaped years ago. The choice will cost her the secure world she built for herself and her daughter, but some evils cannot be left unchallenged.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: deception, second-chance, secrets
Setting: Key West, New York
Period: 21st-century
383 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company