Chip Dalton has sold fourteen million books. He smiles on morning shows and talks about what really matters—family, love, being present. His fans adore him. America adores him. But his wife knows who he really is. His daughter knows. His editor, the woman he used and discarded, knows.

The cabin in the Catskills is where Chip goes to be himself. Fifty private acres, no neighbors, no witnesses. He's supposed to be writing his new book there—The Family Man, a novel about a devoted husband and father. But when he starts typing, the words come out wrong.

Every lie he writes becomes truth on the screen. Every fiction becomes confession. And then the laptop won't let him stop. For twelve days, something forces Chip Dalton to write the only honest thing he's ever created. The real story. Every affair. Every cruelty. Every life he diminished ...