Every Vow You Break: A Novel

Every Vow You Break opens with Abigail Baskin living in New York City and preparing to marry wealthy tech investor Bruce Lamb. Three days before the wedding, she spots a man at a coffee shop with whom she recently had a one-night stand during her bachelorette weekend. She knows him only as Scottie, an alias they used during the encounter.

Anxious about his presence, Abigail spends her workday speculating about his motives before taking a quieter route home to avoid him. That evening, while Bruce is at a work dinner, she receives an email from Scottie. In it, he tells her he has feelings for her, and he suggests she cancel the wedding and meet him soon if she feels the same. Abigail wonders how he found her email, then she responds with a clear rejection but without any self-incriminating details. When no reply comes, she assumes the matter is closed.

A flashback shows 17-year-old Abigail in her hometown of Boxgrove, Massachusetts. During a summer production of Deathtrap at the theater run by her parents, Lawrence and Amelia Baskin, she becomes infatuated with an actor named Zachary Mason.

Despite the fact that Abigail is in a relationship with a boy named Todd Heron, after the wrap party, she loses her virginity to Zachary.