Overview

Twenty-eight-year-old Ph.D. candidate, Jaie Baxter, is supremely confident about three things: She will become a noted writer. She'll win the prestigious Adamson Prize. And she can have any woman who grabs her attention.

But Jaie's arrogance begins to slip away the day she meets Terez Overton, a woman whose ethnicity matches hers, but whose background is the exact opposite. And then Jaie's confidence vanishes completely with the arrival of a scheming ex-lover, Seneca Wilson, who is armed with the nightmarish recollections of an unsolved murder and threatens to hold all of Jaie's future happiness hostage. How will Jaie deal with her past's truths and their spirit-breaking power?