Ruby Soames

Are you the Jack Mathews I met on Santa Catalina Island twenty-one years ago?

One question and the past is back - uninvited, unforgiving, and set to wreck Jack’s world.

Elizabeth Lambert is a master of reinvention. From Californian trailer-park teen to renowned home decorator and socialite, she has everything-except the love she lost at fifteen.

So when the pandemic hits, she tracks him down.

Jack Mathews is now a struggling car dealer in a small town near San Diego, father of three and married to a beloved school principal. But once he answers that first message, Jack and Elizabeth’s flirtatious exchange rapidly escalates into an erotic obsession, with both wondering: What if...?

Then Elizabeth arrives in Jack’s hometown, ready to risk everything for the life they’ve longed for - but is Jack?

When your best life comes at a cost, how much are you willing to pay?