Linde Preston was lucky enough to win the heart of the most enviable groom at the university—Alex Mitchell. In the couple’s relationship there’s idyll—until the moment when Linda agrees to spend her holidays at his parents’ house. She will have to learn what secrets the seemingly perfect California family keeps, and find out what lies behind the strange behavior of Alex’s older brother, Elias—whom Linda, from the very first minute they meet, immediately feels mutual dislike toward.