Aggie Wiggs is an acclaimed author who pulled away from public life after the tragic death of her young son. A ghost of her former self, she had been unable to write until finding an unlikely subject for a new book in Nile Jarvis, a neighbor and famed real estate mogul who was once the prime suspect in his wife's disappearance. Horrified and fascinated by this man, Aggie finds herself compulsively hunting for the truth - chasing his demons while fleeing her own - in a game of cat and mouse that could have deadly consequences.