Introduction

Eight years ago, I gave up everything to save the man I loved.

I was an award-winning investigative journalist, Ava Miller, and I put Marcus Thorne in prison - a choice that broke us both.

I promised myself he' d be safe, even if it meant he' d hate me forever.

But the truth was far more complex than a simple betrayal.

A cruel family secret, a hidden illness eating away at my mind, turned me into a stranger even to myself.

Now he' s back, richer and colder, engaged to my former best friend Chloe, and determined to make me pay for a crime I didn' t commit.

He thinks I' m a liar, a gold-digger, broken and pathetic.

He doesn' t know the real reason I did what I did, or that my memory is failing, turning my past into a terrifying blank.

With nowhere left to turn, and my mind slipping away, there' s only one way I can tell him the truth, one last desperate message before I lose it all… or myself.

I have to make him understand, even if it' s the last thing I ever do.