

For seven years, Kelsey Dale ran a business empire from the shadows and called herself a housewife. She gave up her name, her position, and eventually her health to prop up a husband who needed her more than he admitted, including nursing him through a near-fatal illness with everything she had. On the day their infant son turns one hundred days old, Gaige Hamilton walks through the door with his mistress and their child, backed by his parents, and offers Kelsey a choice: accept them under her roof and keep managing the household, or leave without her son. Seven years. That is what they thought they were owed.

"For seven years, Nora put her own plans on hold while helping Elliot become one of New York’s most sought-after lawyers. She thought their wedding would finally be the day he put her first. Then one desperate text from his young assistant sends him running—leaving Nora behind in her wedding dress. He tells her to wait. Instead, she cancels the wedding in front of two hundred guests. Elliot doesn’t know she was going to tell him they’re having a baby. He doesn’t know that this time, she won’t forgive him and come home. Leaving New York to reclaim the career she put aside, Nora starts building a life that no longer revolves around his needs. And the lawyer who always has an answer discovers that some losses cannot be argued away."

Orphaned and utterly alone, Frank Judson has lived undercover for years on end. To perfect his alias, he's mingled in every entertainment den in the city, only to be busted, again and again, by Lila Tynan, his high school desk mate turned police detective. A reunion, but not the kind he'd imagined. Then comes the order from Captain Sam Lunn: infiltrate the inner circle of Bernice Ruth, the shadow queen of Yorick's underworld.Starting from the foot spa SpaVille,Frank begins to peel back layer after layer of deception. Yet when the fog clears, she realizes, deep down, he's still the same boy she once knew.

After moving to a mysterious town, Nora is warned never to open the door after 8 p.m.—but that very night, something terrifying happens.