Office romance between the CEO and his Assistant

Maria thought her wedding day was the beginning of her perfect life. It was the perfect lie. ​After seven years of love and loyalty, Maria's dream shatters when she discovers her new husband, James, is having an affair with her best friend, Clara. Her response is swift and spectacular: she exposes their deceit during her champagne toast, throwing her life into immediate, devastating chaos.

Haunted by a career-ending mistake, disgraced NYPD detective Elias Thorne inherits the decaying Blackwood Manor on the isolated coast of Maine. When he discovers his great-aunt Seraphina didn't drown in the stormy cove years ago but staged her death to run away, he is pulled into a decades-old web of fraud and betrayal. Armed with a secret ledger and the two pieces of the Emerald Key, Elias must race against a desperate killer hiding in plain sight-a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the final, devastating truth buried beneath the manor's ancient foundation.