In a small, suburban town, the murder of a local high school student rocks one woman's family to its coreâand threatens to expose her deepest, darkest secrets in the process.
After a lifetime of hardship, Jessica Thornton finally has the life sheâs dreamed of: a new marriage to a realtor with burgeoning success; a daughter whose athleticism has won her a scholarship to college; and a freshly-secured grant from her bank to finally complete her own higher education.
Her life today is a complete reversal from the not-too-distant past, when the death of her first husband left her penniless and desperate to provide for her then-newborn child. But after the murder of her childrenâs high school classmate, a series of disturbances brings Jessica to question whether her dreams ever actually came true, or whether theyâve just been delusions all along...
In the days after the murder, suspicion creeps in at every corner, beginning with Jessicaâs daughter and stepson, who wonât tell her where they were on that fateful night. Then she discovers that her husbandâs business is failing, not growing, and that the stories heâs told of meetings with high-powered investors were nothing more than lies. And when a private investigator comes to look into the death of her first husband, her last foundation of truth slips suddenly away.
In a small, suburban town, the murder of a local high school student rocks one woman's family to its coreâand threatens to expose her deepest, darkest secrets in the process.
After a lifetime of hardship, Jessica Thornton finally has the life sheâs dreamed of: a new marriage to a realtor with bu...