The police have long assumed bigamist and wealthy businessman Ron Raven paid the price of his crimes with his life. But the restaurateur Luke Savarini is convinced otherwise when he sees his former investigator leaving a chic restaurant near Washington, D.C. The case may be closed, but Luke still feels obligated to tell Ron's second wife, Avery. Kate Fairfax is furious that Luke would raise such an absurd possibility to her mother, who's already suffered...

Having disappeared from a Miami hotel room, leaving signs of a bloody struggle, Raven's trail leads police to his two families, whom he had for 25 years kept in separate cities-one in Chicago and one in Thatch, Wyo.-and entirely clueless about each other. As police uncover deeper levels of deception, it comes to light that Raven used his Wyoming wife's ranch as collateral on a loan he received from his Chicago wife's brother, Adam. Furious, Adam shows...