A desperate young womanâs bargain with a wealthy couple is not what it seems in this gothic tale of big city dreams gone wrong from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrewsâwhose books are now major Lifetime TV movies.
The English countryside is beautiful, but for Emma Corey it cannot compare with the bright lights of New York City. Tired of performing only in pubs and at church, she announces sheâs moving to Americaâand her conservative father disowns her on the spot.
Distraught but undeterred, Emma will become a Broadway starâor die trying. The largeness of the new city, her new friends, the boundless opportunities make everything shine with promise. However, New York has a way of chipping away at a newcomerâs resolve. First a robbery. Then a low-wage job. Then the realization that such a city attracts the young and the talentedâcompetitors all.
Just when it seems like Emma might have to admit defeat and return to the UK, she is introduced to a peculiar couple: a wife that cannot bear children of her own, and a husband who would pay Emma to solve that problem.
Emmaâs father once told her, âMoney is life.â But when Emma trades one for the other and moves into the coupleâs remote estate to participate in an elaborate ruse, thereâs no telling what kind of life sheâll have once sheâs taken the money.