Claire knows—it's Simon, her ex-husband, who killed their daughter. And he’s capable of killing again. When Simon’s life finally seems to settle after the divorce, he starts a family, and Claire begins to fear for the life of his new stepdaughter—so much like their dead little girl. In an attempt to warn Simon’s fiancée about his true nature, Claire crosses every line: she threatens, stalks, and causes genuine terror.
Sloane Wilson, who quit the police, is used to working with people like that. But after taking a closer look, she sees more than just an obsessed ex-psycho-path. And there’s no longer any way to distinguish painful fiction from devastating truth.
But one thing Sloane knows for sure: sometimes the only way to prevent a crime is to commit it. On one side, a successful, confident Simon Miller—expensive suit, dazzling smile. On the other, his former wife, shattered by the tragic death of their daughter—nervous, impulsive, just out of a psychiatric hospital—who accuses Miller of a terrible crime. Whom will the reader believe: the narrator—or her fiercest enemy? And what twist will the story take when another woman gets involved, carrying her own burden of tragic disappointments?