Terry Painter enjoys her quiet life in Delray, Florida, living alone in the house she inherited from her mother. When young, vibrant Alison Simms rents the cottage on her property, the two women strike up a fast friendship--and Terry is swept into a fantastic new life: dinners out, shopping, makeovers, and even potentially dating a handsome young man. But nothing about her newfound companion is as it appears and soon, Terry is in a race against time to reclaim her own life back.

With Joy Fielding's page-turning and suspenseful prose, she "tests the complex ties that bind friends and family, and keeps readers wondering when those same ties might turn deadly" (Publishers Weekly).