Annika Chase came to the Cotswolds to disappear.

After the crash that killed her husband and unborn child, she leaves America behind and takes refuge in a secluded village of honey-colored stone cottages and quiet lanes. With the help of her old friend Oliver, she begins building a life no one can trace back to the one she left behind.

Then her husband’s brother finds her—and accuses her of murder.

Oliver leaves to confront him. He never comes home.

Days later, her brother-in-law’s body is pulled from the river, and Oliver becomes the prime suspect in his death.

With Oliver under suspicion, Annika is drawn into the secrets of his troubled family, where grief, resentment, and old betrayals have been festering for years. But as questions multiply and suspicion spreads, the safety she came to the Cotswolds to find begins to slip away. Everyone seems to be hiding something, and Annika can no longer be certain who she can trust.

Because in a place where everyone knows everyone, secrets don’t stay buried for long.