Cape Morgan, Maine, is the utopian ideal for a charmed life, and Beatrice Wicker knows it. The multi-million-dollar house on the sea coast. The joint bank accounts. The safety and security that go along with being married to an esteemed architect and community leader. The scenic coastline, perfect for her ambitious plan to turn an abandoned asylum into an artists' retreat. So what if her husband sneaks off to see his second family now and again? Beatrice is willing to look the other way. It's simply the price she must pay to keep their life together. Josh doesn't realize that Beatrice knows about his other life. That's just one of Beatrice's secrets. And now, that truth, along with a deadly host of other secrets from the past, is about to upend their false paradise. When there's an explosion at the local elementary-school playground and a two-year-old boy is abducted, it doesn't take Beatrice long to make the connection between the missing boy and her husband. It was the son from Josh's other life who was kidnapped, and Josh can't do anything about it without revealing the truth. Helping Josh find his son would destroy the faȧde of her perfect marriage and could put more children's lives in danger. But that's not all. It would reveal her deeper secret: Beatrice Wicker is not who she claims to be.
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