Marcella Eden has been drifting through life for quite a while, stuck in her plain Manhattan apartment, and barely scraping by. Such a bore life has been, she’d found herself thinking on countless occasions as she watched the car lights slide along the city street. Yet, when Marcella collides with the heir to a billion-dollar-company, she finds a new world shift into sharp focus. Theo Beaumont’s world. An unlikely romance blooms between them, and Marcella is whisked away to Night Shade, a marble mansion overlooking the ocean at the edge of a cliff. It’s almost too good to be true, she admits to a whispering sea. But it’s only for one weekend. What could possibly happen in such a short amount of time?

 

The answer to that question, however, becomes more complicated than she’d bargained for as she watches Theo’s secret life unfold before her eyes. Set at the edge of the Hamptons, the beauty surrounding this world stands in stark contrast to the brutality that it arouses. And Marcella finds herself in a dream at the edge of a nightmare. She must ask herself one pivotal question: is love worth dying for?