"A riveting debut novel of psychological suspense about a young archivist whose obsession with her subject's mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity"-- Callinas, California. Famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career. Decades later her son, Theo, hires ex-journalist Kate Aitken to create an archive of his mother's work. As Kate pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage, she unearths shocking details of Miranda's private life-- and develops a growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo. But Kate has secrets of her own. When she finds a diary that may finally resolve the mystery of Miranda's death, curiosity spirals into a dangerous obsession. -- adapted from jacket