From the author of The Intangible comes a powerful story of double lives, hidden truths, and the desire to have the perfect life, no matter the price.

When contract killer Cooper Franklin makes a deathbed confession, his revelations upend the lives of two strangers, setting them on an intersecting and ruinous path that imperils them both.

Widow and single mom Tamara Foster must reckon with the mystery of her late husband's death and the secrets he left behind. As she digs deeper into his past to discover that she never truly knew him at all, her carefully reconstructed world begins to crumble all over again.

Cindy Fremont has worked hard for the perfect life, and she's working even harder to keep it. So when Tamara shows up at her door seeking answers about her husband's past, Cindy must reexamine the tracks she thought she'd carefully covered.

As the two women scramble to keep their lives together in the wake of Cooper's confession, they soon realize that no matter how deeply the past is buried, it can always come back to find you.