Dickson’s debut novel swoops and swirls through startling plot twists and multiple perspectives, opening doors into the dark secrets lurking in her characters’ pasts.

Soon, the little cul-de-sac at the end of a Lake Forest road is writhing with passion and intrigue-all ominously surveilled by the driver of the mysterious car. And Vicki’s 18-year-old hunk of a son, Jake, catches Phoebe’s sensual attentions immediately. But Phoebe isn’t just an overly privileged woman who likes her cabernet sauvignon a little too much: Like her father, she gets what she wants when she wants it. Despite her volatile and alcoholic husband, Vicki Napier may turn out to be Phoebe’s new best friend. What’s an heiress to do but drink away her days? That is, until the new neighbors arrive, offering distractions. Phoebe can barely wait for him to leave for work each day. Her husband, Wyatt, with his incessant harping on babies-whether gotten by fertility treatments or adoption-isn’t helping. Exposed as a womanizer and rapist, he’s left her little choice but to hunker down inside her mansion to escape the glare of public shame. Her late father, the infamous Daniel Noble, may have left her financially set for life, but he also saddled her with his notoriety.

When Phoebe Miller spots a mysterious vehicle parking on her Chicagoland street every day, the silhouette of the driver sitting there for hours at a time, she has no idea the mayhem that's about to be set loose.Īfter all, Phoebe already has enough to worry about.

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