Blackthorn Place. Where perfect lawns hide imperfect truths. A neighborhood built on keeping things quiet, especially when powerful men are involved.
 
So when a local wife is found dead in her pool in December, the whispers call it a tragic accident. She was fragile. She’d been drinking. These things happen.
 
But Bodhi Lane knows better. Twelve years ago, Blackthorn Place taught her how quickly stories are twisted, how easily young girls are dismissed, and what the cost of silence truly is. Now, under a new name, she’s back with her daughter, living in the shadow of the man who once shattered her life and whose wife is now dead.
 
Rich Halstead. Charming. Connected. Untouchable. The kind of man Blackthorn Place protects. The kind of man Bodhi remembers differently.
 
As suspicion ripples through the cul-de-sac, loyalties fray and old wounds resurface. Bodhi must decide where justice truly lies in a world designed to shield men like him.
 
Because men like him are untouchable.

Until someone decides they aren’t.