His wife saved you a seat at his company’s anniversary dinner. His former partner came to tell her why one phone call to you cost him twenty years of friendship.

To the rest of the room, Sebastian Vale is a married real estate magnate, and you’re the woman whose studio designed the room they’re sitting in. After dark, men who have threatened each other’s lives still keep their word when Sebastian gives his. For months, you’ve known both versions of him well enough to tell when he’s lying.

Tonight, his wife asks you what was said on the phone. The truth is simple. Explaining why the man called you is going to be harder.