Publisher's Synopsis
Deceit can make a love story turn deadly.
Leila learned from a very young age that marriage does not work for everyone.
But for Leila and her high school sweetheart, Nicholas, they are confident they'll be together forever.
After a dramatic break-up post high school, Leila and Nicholas experience lust-filled flings without one another. Leila experiences betrayal which has a devastating effect on the decision she makes next.
The yearn and ache for one another is evident when Nicholas comes home from military training. Their passionate pull is too strong to deny. There is no one that knows Leila's body more than Nicholas.
Life hits off at lightning speed and soon, they are doing all of the things Leila had always dreamed of: raising a family, owning a house, and trying to get the jobs they've always wanted. It almost feels normal.
If someone would have asked her, she would have said that she didn't see it coming. But that is not entirely true. Leila notices the little things. The distance. The constant drum of mind-numbing television, and after one family vacation, she notices the scent of another woman on Nicholas's body.
He denies it, and Leila tries to throw herself back into domestic life. But it seems that every corner she turns, there is another man who is trying to take advantage of her. Like so many women, Leila feels like she has to keep one eye open: even with her own husband.
A TV obsession for Nicholas soon becomes much more. Soon, Nicholas is in a spending, lust-driven frenzy. His deception knows no bounds, and what was once a fairytale marriage soon turns into a nightmare.
As Leila learns, not for the first time, lust can make you do crazy things. Things you never would have dreamed of.
What happens when the person you are married to becomes the person you fear the most? In love and in death, Nicholas and Leila are about to discover the darkest parts of their love story.
