Christobel Kent

Alison lives her life under the radar. She has no ties, which is how she wants it. Because Alison used to be a teenager named Esme, who lived in a dilapidated house by a bleak estuary. One night, something unspeakable happened in the house, and Alison emerged the only survivor, and now she has cut herself off from her past.

Sukie has had enough of not putting herself out there. On a whim, she accepts an offer to go to a Greek island for the weekend with Jake, a man she has barely begun dating. If that isn't putting herself out here, she doesn't know what is.

Heather is at the airport when she sees a young woman with an older man - and immediately she understands that the woman is in danger. Because in fifteen years, Heather hasn't been able to forget what Jake did to her. And the next thing she knows, she's buying a plane ticket and following them.

What should have been a perfectly pleasant weekend away quickly descends into something much darker.

Fran Hall and her husband Nathan live in a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens. One night, when Fran is woken by her baby, she finds the bed empty beside her and Nathan gone. As Fran finds herself under police scrutiny, the questions begin to mount. Is there something that she is hiding from them – something she has kept hidden from everyone, including her husband?

Hoping for a peaceful break from her young family, Gina Donovan travels to Florence to stay with an old friend. Gina and her hosts are invited to a birthday party given by Frances Richardson, but as the day of the party approaches the close-knit expatriate community is stunned by a terrible discovery and everyone is under suspicion.

When bossy, loving, sensible Kate dies suddenly, her little sister Rose dutifully returns from a carefree life abroad to help Kate's widower and the two children Rose has never met. But she is unsettled to see no trace of her warm-hearted sister in the remote, dilapidated house, nor in Kate's cold, distant partner, Evan.

After stumbling across a message that only her sister could have left for her, Rose's unease around the circumstances of Kate's death turns to open suspicion, but she knows better than to ask the grieving widower for answers.

Determined to discover the truth of her sister's terrible last days, Rose has no choice but to keep looking. Eventually, she senses, the dark house will give up its secrets. But she is not prepared to admit that whoever threatened Kate's life might now be coming after her...