I read a book in 2018 (adult contemporary fiction, not romance) that was published in 2017 or 2018 about a woman who leaves her husband and daughter at the beach while they're on vacation and becomes a waitress in a small town on the East Coast (US). **spoilers ahead** she was abused by a previous husband and has a rich man in New York who helped her kill her ex husband tracking her with a private investigator, who she falls in love with, and together they accidentally kill a woman who he was sleeping with. I think that she had a daughter with disabilities who she's secretly supporting, too? I liked the author and it's driving me nuts that I can't think of the name of the book! Thank you for your help.
One is playing a long game. But which one?They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through.Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steam One is playing a long game. But which one?They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through.Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets that begin to accumulate as autumn approaches, feeding the growing doubts they conceal.Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away—or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them?Something—or someone—has to give.Which one will it be? ...more