The week he was set to propose, I found out that Jackson was cheating. With his friend's nineteen-year-old daughter. I wasn't thinking - I forced my way into her apartment the night I saw their sex tape. But now she's gone missing and Jackson has me trapped in our relationship. To even the score, he's told me to have my own affair. "It's complicated" doesn't even begin to describe twenty-six-year-old Lara Pierce's engagement to Jackson Kinsley, the gorgeous man at the top of the rich, mysterious boys club that runs Manhattan society. Tangled in a world of luxe galas, shiny penthouses and handsome men who can literally get away with murder, Lara's sure that accepting Jackson's offer will somehow make her wild life a little simpler. But when she unknowingly sleeps with Jackson's irresistibly tall, dark and sexy brother, Jake, the floodgates open - to the darkest truths and deepest lies that shatter her perfect world a million times over.

Before, Lara Pierce felt trapped in her relationship. Now, she's being flat-out blackmailed to stay. With Jackson holding evidence of a murder she didn't commit, Lara finds herself essentially held hostage as his fiancée. Despite the outward glamour of her Manhattan life, she is living and breathing a daily nightmare. Good thing she has a hunch—and a plan to put Jackson in jail where he belongs. Unfortunately, it'll require her to pretend that everything is fine. Absolutely fine. In order to free herself from Jackson's grip, both Lara and Jake must get closer than ever to the man that likely killed Gabrielle Winter. And while that should be easy as his fiancée and brother, it proves impossible when factoring in a secret affair that grows deeper, hotter and riskier with every uncovered secret.