Annabel Lee is a darkly funny, unsettling thriller about intimacy, power, and the stories people tell themselves to survive. When Annabel Lee meets apathetic salesman Jack Sterling on a flight to California wine country, neither of them is prepared for the dangerous chemistry that follows. Annabel is magnetic, wounded, and hiding a lethal sense of justice. Jack is lonely, watchful, and haunted by a past he can't outrun. Over a few intoxicating days in Sonoma, flirtation turns into confession, but every secret that draws them closer also threatens to tear them apart. As a string of deaths begins to suggest a pattern no one wants to see, Annabel's private mission collides with Jack's buried secrets, a suspicious hotel manager, and a detective desperate for a case worth solving. Sharp, romantic, and morally thorny, this is a story about predators, protectors, and the terrifying reality that love and justice don't always make good bedfellows.