A secret you could kill to keep. Kit Darling is a maid who loves to pry into the lives of her wealthy clients. It was a harmless hobby until the day Keith learns the terrible secret of a couple who are expecting their first child. Their reputation is at stake. They are ready to do anything to ensure that Kit takes this secret with her to the grave. Mallory van Aelst is called to the scene of a luxurious house on the coast. She sees traces of a brutal, bloody attack. There is almost no chance that the victim is alive. But there is no body, the owners and their maid have disappeared, and the only witness is an elderly neighbor who woke up at night from screams. She is the last person to see Kit Darling alive. Laureth Ann White is a Romantic Times Literary Reviewers' Choice, National Readers' Choice, Best Suspense, and Bookseller's Best finalist. Former journalist and editor Media, has worked in South Africa and Canada, but now lives with her family on an island off the west coast of Canada. When Loret is not working on another book, she skis, bikes, and goes on radial hikes with her dog (the famous under the nickname Black Beast) or swims in the ocean. She calls this part of her job, because it is at such moments that she gets brilliant ideas and plots for new books.