New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a bestseller when she sees 1 — even if it’s a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer determined only as P.M.E., using the return address of the obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is usually intrigued enough to find him.

Her visit to Georgia to meet up the mysterious author takes her for an eerie, ruined cotton plantation, where Maris discovers Parker Evans, a man limited to a wheelchair who cautiously hides his past. Coaxing his about Envy novel from him chapter by chapter, Maris gets caught up in his tale of two close friends who lease a boat with a woman to get a night of sex and drinking. Only one person will come back from that trip.

Disturbed about her intimate attraction to Parker and worried about her relationship to author and her co-publisher Noah Reed, Maris earnings to NY where in fact the delivery of Parker’s newest chapters convince her they are more than fiction. She miracles how well she knows her husband and begins a harrowing search for a truth that ties back again to a terrifying crime and a will use her, or anyone, to get his revenge.

Envy explores the way like and hatred form lives in a breathtaking story of suspense.