Catherine is horrified to discover The Perfect Stranger in her local bookstore while Robert later kicks her out of the house. In flashbacks to the years after Jonathan's passing, a grieving Nancy moves into Jonathan's room and secretly begins writing The Perfect Stranger while dying of cancer. In 2001, Jonathan has Catherine pose for his photos during their tryst, and the two have sex again the next day in a beach cabana. Jonathan tells Catherine he is in love with her and has already bought a ticket to London to be with her, but Catherine tells him they cannot be together. Nicholas, left unattended, takes his inflatable dinghy into the water, and the current takes him far into the sea. Jonathan rushes in to save him, followed by a number of lifeguards and beachgoers. Nicholas is successfully rescued, but Catherine sees Jonathan drowning in the distance and neglects to alert anyone; by the time the lifeguards take notice and bring him ashore, Jonathan has already died.
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When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story - one that exposes her darkest secret.