Usually, best-selling novelist Jen only writes about murder, romance, and mystery, but when she retreats to her island bungalow for peace and inspiration, her own life soon becomes as deadly, steamy, and twisty as one of her beach reads.

A young lawyer is drawn into a dangerous world of murder and corruption when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old case she believes led to a wrongful conviction–unearthing secrets that powerful people would kill to keep buried.