Two rival writers. One reclusive heiress. And a summer of secrets that will rewrite everything they know about love and legacy.
Alice Scott is tired of writing celebrity gossip. She is ready for a story with teeth, a story that will finally prove to her high-achieving family that she is a serious journalist. So when she lands an exclusive invite to a secluded Georgia island to interview Margaret Ives—the elusive, long-vanished heiress to a scandalous 20th-century media dynasty—Alice thinks she has found her golden ticket.
Until she arrives and collides with Hayden Anderson.
Hayden is an intensely sharp, cynical, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who views Alice’s sunny optimism with pure skepticism. He is after the exact same scoop. The enigmatic Margaret lays down a challenge: they have one month to live on the island, interview her separately, and pitch their vision for her biography. Only one of them will win the rights to her story.
Bound by a strict non-disclosure agreement, Alice and Hayden are forced into tight proximity, forbidden from swapping notes. But as Margaret spins a glittering, tragic web of secrets, the fragments don’t add up. To uncover the truth, the two rivals must learn to trust each other, sparking an electric, slow-burn tension that threatens to unravel their professional walls—and their he
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