Kelli Clare is a former human resource executive and contributing writer for a Forbes and TIME recognized website for women. She has been a progressive voice for a global coalition of bloggers focused on issues involving women, children, and world hunger. Critics have called her debut novel elegant, gripping, and provocative.

Clare attended the University of Toledo and lives in Ohio with her two children and sock-thieving spaniel. She is an active member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, Romance Writers of America, and the Mystery/Suspense chapter of Romance Writers of America.

A gripping debut that will take you deep into the dark corners of obsession and family intrigue.

Small-town Connecticut art teacher Ellie James finds the intense connection she’s longing for when she meets Will Hastings, a seductive Englishman with an alluring darkness. But just days later, her sister and grandmother are murdered, and she must confront the unthinkable: is Will a man she can trust, a killer—or both?

After surviving a near-fatal attempt on her life, Ellie makes a desperate move. She takes her young niece Lissie and runs to England with Will. There, passion becomes possession, London paparazzi call her by another name, and assassins of a secret society close in when the stunning truth about Ellie’s family is exposed. When Will suddenly disappears after putting a ring on her finger, Ellie must find the strength to elude assassins, disentangle herself from the haunting lies she’s lived for twenty-seven years, and answer one pressing question: who is Ellie James?