The award-winning author of The Personal Librarian delivers an unforgettable story of a marriage caught at the crossroads of passion and rageโthe inspiration for four Lifetime original movies.
Chastity Jeffries and Xavier King come from very different backgrounds, though they have one thing in common: theyโre both living with family secrets. Chastity is the only child of a prominent pastor and has been raised with privilege, but her fatherโs testimony as a philanderer and her momโs role as dutiful wife have tainted her view of love. Xavier never knew his father, and his mother abandoned him. His grandmother raised him in a household built on cruelty and violence instead of love and acceptance, instilling in him a fear of abandonment and an enormous sense of insecurity.
Sparks fly when Chastity and Xavier meet, and their whirlwind romance feels almost too good to be true. Chastity is swept off her feet, but before long, cracks begin to show in Xavierโs perfect faรงade, and it is only a matter of time before that faรงade comes crumbling down. When Xavierโs wrath erupts at a level Chastity has never seen, who will it destroy forever?