It starts with an invitation... but ends with a disappearance. Or maybe it's murder. No one knows yet. But time is running out?tick tock.

For years, bright, young lawyer Rosalie Stetson has avoided returning to Blushing Green, California?a town split by emerald green hills, where the elite sip wine while the working class fights for a place at the table. She thought she had left it all behind, including her ex-husband, Peter Sterling?heir to one of the country's wealthiest and most ruthless families.

But when Rosalie's ex-grandmother-in-law, Edna Sterling, requests her presence for an urgent matter before her 80th birthday celebration, she can't say no. What Edna has to tell her is a mystery. And Edna likes it that way.

The last person Chance Sterling expects to see when he arrives at the family estate is Rosalie Stetson. His cousin's ex-wife. A woman with secrets of her own. A woman who doesn't even remember the first time they met. But when Edna asks them both to sign a mysterious agreement, neither of them can anticipate the storm it will unleash.

"You love me?"

"You trust me?"

"Then sign on the dotted line," Edna says.

And the moment they do?everything unravels.

Perfect for fans of J.R. Ward's The Bourbon Kings and Liv Constantine's The Last Mrs. Parrish, Secrets and Lies is a gripping tale of wealth, power, and deception where nothing is as it seems. Dare to step inside the world of the Sterlings?before it's too late.