Chapter 1 - The Midnight Verdict (Recap)
On the third night of her honeymoon aboard a luxury yacht gifted by her father, Evelyn Mercer (née Sterling) overheard her husband Flynn, his father Aidan, and his mother Fiona plotting her murder. Drugged under the guise of severe seasickness, Evelyn learned that Flynn planned to throw her overboard into the churning Atlantic after midnight to seize control of her financial holdings and a three-hundred-million-dollar trust. Worse, the family planned an orchestrated car crash the following week to eliminate her parents and end the "Sterling problem," settling a score twenty-two years in the making. Managing to conceal the poisoned tablets Flynn left behind and refusing the drugged soup, Evelyn summoned the courage to seek help. Taking advantage of the housekeeping round, she pulled Nora Walsh—a trusted chief steward of the Sterling family whom Flynn despised—into the stateroom, desperately begging for Dr. Lauren Bennett outside the yacht's monitored communication lines.
