When Joanna Whitman s ex-husband, one of California s most beloved celebrity chefs, dies in a car accident, she doesn t know what to feel. Their dysfunctional marriage held more secrets than she cares to remember, but when she discovers a young woman was with him in the crash--who s now in hospital, on her own, and  pregnant -- Joanna sees red. How dare he ruin yet another woman s life? More than anyone, Joanna knows the brutal spotlight this girl is going to find herself in...unless she can find a way for them both to disappear?   Ashley can t believe it when Joanna shows up in her hospital room and offers to spirit them both away for the summer to her secluded beach house on the Californian coast. Joanna should be hating her, not helping her. But orphaned and pregnant, Ashley can t turn Joanna down. Even though she knows that if Joanna ever discovers the  real  truth of why Ashley was in her ex s car, their tentative bond would n