When the town pariah Lizzie Ouellette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly. Copper Falls, Maine. The local junkyard is burning, and town pariah Lizzie Ouellette is dead-- with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead him to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzie's tiny lake house. As her connection to the case becomes clear, so too does her connection to Lizzie, who narrates their story from beyond the grave. Each woman is desperately lonely in her own way, and they navigate a relationship that cuts across class boundaries: transactional, complicated, and, finally, deadly. -- adapted from jacket