With a healthy newborn baby, a devoted husband, a successful career, and a busy life on Martha’s Vineyard, Brynn Nelson should be the happiest she’s ever been. But Brynn is struggling. Her husband, Ross, grows more distant by the day, and the challenges and exhaustion of postpartum make Brynn feel like she’s slowly losing pieces of herself to motherhood. Pieces that she may never get back.

But it’s summer on the Vineyard, a beacon for wealthy visitors, and a place so beautiful that it seems immune to tragedy and crime. Except for locals like Brynn, who know all too well that tragedy can strike at any point. And this time, it hits close to home when a friend of the family if found washed ashore. And Brynn’s already hectic life is turned upside down when Ross is arrested for the crime. The murder rocks the new mom to the core, leaving her to search for answers.

Julia Spiro is the bestselling author of Someone Else’s Secret and Full. With Such a Good Mom, she brings the real and layered Martha’s Vineyard to life through the eyes of a new mom trying to get out of the eye of the storm that is a murder investigation. A year-round Vineyard resident, Julia lives with her partner, their two children, and two rescue dogs.