New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass desperately trying to
get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the
prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. Amber Glass has spent her entire adult
life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore where she
fears she will forever be known as ?Prom Mom??the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the
night of the prom after her date Joe Simpson abandoned her to pursue the girl he really
liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city she realizes she can have a second
chance?as long as she stays away from Joe now a successful commercial real estate developer
married to a plastic surgeon Meredith to whom he is devoted. The problem is Amber can't stay
away from Joe. And Joe finds that it's increasingly hard for him to ignore Amber if only
because she remembers the boy he was and the man he said he was going to be. Against the
surreal backdrop of 2020 and early 2021 the two are slowly drawn to each other and eventually
cross the line they've been trying not to cross. And then Joe asks Amber to help him do the
unthinkable...
