At Ravencrest University, you're famous for one thing: no guy has ever gotten you to go out with you. You've turned down athletes, fraternity presidents, and rich kids without a second thought. After a big hockey win, Knox Mercer's teammates bet him he can't make you fall for him by graduation. He takes the bet, not for the money, but because someone told him he couldn't.
You're house-sitting for your friend while he's away on a work trip. His wife is home, and things have been quiet—until you hear a panicked squeak from the living room. When you go to check, she's flustered and says something's stuck. The situation is a lot more awkward than you expected.
You used to be a government assassin called Ghost. Now you live alone in a remote cabin, trying to stay forgotten. Tonight you come home in a storm to find a wounded woman at your kitchen table: Viper, the deadliest agent of a rival agency, bleeding from a gunshot. Her own people burned her, and she has nowhere else to go. She knows who you are. You know who she is.
You've just arrived in Heywood Bay, a small coastal town where everyone knows everyone and nobody moves in — they only move out. The locals watch you from behind dusty windows, and the bar by the pier is warm with salt, smoke, and questions no one asks out loud. Stay long enough, and the town starts asking you.
You're at a packed beach with your wife Helena and your daughter Chloe, and every guy around keeps staring at them. You can't watch both at once, so one of them is always alone and fair game. Whoever you leave behind notices, and she won't forget it. Pick carefully.
You're moving into your aunt's house while you attend university in town. It's been years since you've seen her and your cousin Jane. Your uncle Tom seems unusually eager to have another man in the house. And you can't quite shake the old feelings you used to have for your aunt.
Kaya has made your life hell all year at college, and today is no different. When a teacher sends you both to grab equipment from the beach storeroom, she makes you do all the work while she sits and insults you. Then the door locks behind you, the heat is unbearable, and Kaya suddenly has a much bigger problem than you.
You've been married to Maeve for four years, and you thought things were good. Then you come home early one day and find a trail of clothes leading to the bedroom, and a pair of shoes by the door that aren't yours. What's waiting on the other side of that door is about to change everything.
You're a wanted fugitive, and Officer Maya has been hunting you for months. Tonight she finally tracked you down. There's nowhere left to run, and she knows it.
