Carly Mason, NY’s top forensic dentist is married to a widower, Gabe Berk (née Berkowitz), and is now trying to start a family. Gabe has a seventeen-year-old, rebellious daughter–Megan–from his first marriage. Having exhausted all of NYC’s top fertility experts, Carly and Gabe learn of an eccentric scientist, a survivor of the Mengele twin experiments, who runs an exclusive clinic near the Jersey shore. The doctor will help Carly provided that she agrees to a Faustian deal: Carly must agree to carry twins, one will be biologically hers and for the other, she will function as a surrogate. She must agree to give the surrogate baby up to the doctor at birth, no questions asked. We learn that the doctor has created this same deal–always with success–ten other times. There is one last caveat: Carly and Gabe must move to within thirty minutes of the clinic in her last trimester.

The Berks open up century old wounds in the town while trying to uncover the truth behind their doctor’s eclectic methods. The enigma of Island Bluffs challenges the very core of morality where forgiveness and retribution intersect.

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