"This might be the most gripping, insightful work from the
best-selling author Alafair Burke yet. She poses a seemingly impossible,
if undeniably compelling, challenge: a woman must either save her life
or defend her husband, but not both." -- Entertainment Weekly
From New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke, a stunning
domestic thriller in the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Woman in
Cabin 10--in which a woman must make the impossible choice between
defending her husband and saving herself.
His Scandal - Her Secret
When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East
Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so
many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise,
Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they
married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be
a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move
out of her mother's home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her
tragic past.
Six years later, thanks to a bestselling book and a growing media
career, Jason has become a cultural lightning rod, placing Angela near
the spotlight she worked so carefully to avoid. When a college intern
makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes
forward with an even more troubling allegation, their life begins to
unravel. Jason insists he is innocent, and Angela believes him. But when
Kerry disappears, Angela is forced to take a closer look--at both the
man she married and the women she chose not to believe.
This much-anticipated follow-up to Burke's Edgar-nominated The Ex asks
how far a wife will go to protect the man she loves.
