Spending time together at their new vacation home on the coast of Maine was supposed to rejuvenate Danica and Blake Lindsay's tired marriage. Instead, Danica finds herself spending all of her time either alone or with her new neighbor, Michael Buchanan, while Blake stays behind in Boston, tending to his career as a fast-rising political star.

for Michael, a tall and gentle man, friendship quickly gives way to an all-consuming love. Danica's own feelings change, growing less innocent and more passionate, but she remains another man's wife, bound by her marriage vows.

Is every marriage destined to last forever? Even one with secrets so shocking an entire nation will take notice? For the first time in her life, Danica Lindsay's chance for happiness is within reach