From the author of the amazing international bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" - a psychological thriller about the secrets of the past, buried in it like time bombs, and about an omnipotent obsession. After the death of her father, an international journalist, thirty-year-old Rima Lancil moves in with her godmother , the famous writer Addison Earley, to her old Victorian mansion, The Eyrie, perched on a high bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Early's most famous creation, private detective Maxwell Lane, has long taken on a life of its own: fan letters are addressed not to the writer, but to Maxwell, numerous websites are dedicated to him, and indiscreet fan fiction is written about him. Rima is much more worried not about when a new book about Maxwell will finally be published, but why the killer in one of Addison’s previous novels was named the same as her father?