Betrayal didn't break him.It made him dangerous.When ex-con and novelist J.A. Kingsley loses everything—his wife, his teenage daughter, and the life he believed he was rebuilding—he flees to the Adirondack Mountains to disappear and start over. At the quiet, lakeside Loon Lake Inn, peace finally seems possible.Until desire gets in the way.Kingsley is drawn into a forbidden affair with the inn owner's wife—a woman with ties to men who kill without hesitation. What begins as lust quickly turns lethal when the lovers decide that nothing will stand between them.Not even murder.Dark, seductive, and relentlessly suspenseful, this is a classic noir thriller in the tradition of James M. Cain, packed with betrayal, obsession, and a twist that seals its fate."e;Entertaining… Zandri keeps the reader guessing all the way to the neat ending."e; —Publishers Weekly