Eight years ago, Mara Bennett walked away from the man she loved after discovering a betrayal she could never forget. Adrian Cole had known someone was watching her, following her, studying her life, and instead of telling her the truth, he decided he knew how to protect her better than she knew how to protect herself.

Now Mara is back in Greyhaven, Maine, determined to rebuild her late uncle’s historic cliffside estate into a beautiful coastal retreat and prove that the life she created without Adrian is enough.

Then someone breaks into Greywake House.

A photograph appears where it should not be.

A message is left behind.

And the stranger watching Mara knows things about her marriage that no outsider should know.

Worst of all, the new threat leads straight back to Adrian’s past.

Forced into the same rooms again, Mara must work with the ex-husband she still cannot fully trust while the danger around Greywake grows more personal. Adrian has spent eight years learning that protection without honesty is only another form of control, but proving he has changed may be harder than finding the man hiding in the shadows.

Because the closer Mara and Adrian get to the truth, the clearer one terrifying fact becomes.

Her stalker did not choose her by accident.

He knows Adrian.

He knows exactly what destroyed their marriage.

And he is counting on Adrian making the same mistake twice.

When the man watching Mara finally steps out of the shadows, will Adrian become the protector she can trust, or will the secret that broke them once destroy their second chance for good?