Hilary Bonner

Marion Anderson lives the perfect life. She has a beautiful home, a loving husband, and a caring son. But as easily as perfect lives are built, they can also be demolished. When tragedy strikes, Marion finds herself in the middle of a nightmare, with no sign of waking-up. The life she treasured is disintegrating, but it's just the beginning of something much worse and altogether more deadly...

Joyce Mildmay's life is torn apart when her husband Charlie is killed in a tragic yachting accident. Six months later a mysterious letter arrives on her doorstep which turns her world upside down. The letter is from Charlie, delivered belatedly in the event of his death, and reveals a trail of intrigue and deception that stretches back through the years. It seems that death is just the beginning...

For the past seven years Carl and Suzanne Peters have lived an idyllic life in St Ives, but it is a life based upon a lie and a hidden past. When a series of poison pen letters threaten to expose their past, their carefully constructed world explodes with shocking consequences.

In Bristol DCI Rose Piper is investigating the murders of two men employed by Avon Escorts. Meanwhile in Somerset, Constance Lange enjoys a comfortable lifestyle. Eventually the worlds of the two women collide.