The fans who put Burke's ( The Wife, 2018, etc.) last domestic thriller on the bestseller list are going to be happy with this one, a gimmick-free.

And when she is asked to defend Jason in court, she realizes that her loyalty to her husband could unearth old secrets. When a corporate lawyer who divorced his first wife and married her more successful sister is found dead in his home in the Hamptons, his teenage son goes on trial for murder. But when Kerry disappears, Angela is forced to take a closer look at the man she married. Jason insists he is innocent, and Angela believes him. When a college intern makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their perfect life begins to unravel. 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. 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. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. 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. 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.

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