One dead student. One buried secret. One woman on the edge.
Claudia Aldridge keeps her life neat and controlled—managing a student apartment building, protecting her reputation, and hiding the reckless past she refuses to discuss.
But when a tenant is found dead under eerily familiar circumstances, Claudia can’t look away. She needs to know what really happened.
Soon she’s sneaking into his apartment, interrogating his friends, even showing up at his funeral. What she discovers is a secret affair volatile enough to ignite jealousy, betrayal—and murder.
As Claudia spirals deeper into the investigation, the careful life she’s built starts to collapse. She’s lying to her husband. Ditching her friends. Breaking rules she once swore to follow.
Because she isn’t just searching for the truth. She’s hunting a killer—one who may be closer than she realizes.
And for the first time in years, she feels like herself again.
Maybe that’s the most dangerous part.
