Eloise Bailey has always protected the people she loves, completely and unapologetically. There have been losses along the way: Robert’s first wife; the mistress he took after marrying Eloise; eventually Robert himself. Tragedies, all of them. But she has buried her grief, such as it was.
Now, five years later, the money is running out, and Eloise is ready to collect what she is owed: Robert’s life insurance. The declaration of death, her attorney assures her, should be a formality. Certain the money will soon be hers, she moves to Nebraska, where she finds her pregnant daughter with bruises she will not explain and a husband Eloise has never trusted. Eloise knows exactly what a dangerous man does to a woman he is supposed to love, and she will not allow Kennedy to become the next inconvenient wife of an inconvenienced husband.
But when an anonymous caller claims Robert has been seen alive, and texts arrive exposing a past Eloise has spent years burying, it isn’t just the money on the line. It is everything: her freedom, her fortune, and her daughter’s safety.
Eloise will do whatever it takes to protect her daughter and keep her past buried.
Her daughter knows this. In fact, Kennedy is counting on it.