Hope Williams, a successful ER doctor, reluctantly meets an accomplished artist on a girls night out. He is everything her past lovers were not, and he forces her to discover a side of her that she never knew existed. As Hope’s sexual life steams up, her work takes a turn for the worse when an abusive husband of a battered patient blames her for his misgivings. Soon, Hope’s personal life becomes entangled with her work life, and both are put at risk

Usually, best-selling novelist Jen only writes about murder, romance, and mystery, but when she retreats to her island bungalow for peace and inspiration, her own life soon becomes as deadly, steamy, and twisty as one of her beach reads.