What would you do to save your family?
The lives of Rosalie Douglas and her teenage daughter, Maddie, are changed forever when they meet Jed, a beautiful, charismatic young man at Bereavement Counselling. Inexplicably and self-destructively, Maddie holds herself accountable for her brother's drowning accident in Thailand.
Jed moves into their lives and their home. Calming the tensions between mother and daughter. He understands the twisted wilderness of grief. Lover and confidante to a besotted Maddie, gentle surrogate son to a grateful Rosalie - on the surface their lives are transformed. But underneath a deadly and morally corrupt triangle is taking shape . . .
'Utterly gripping and disturbing' Irish Independent
'A terrifying novel about the nature of grief, sexual obsession and stalking' Sunday Independent
'So tense that the violence of the ending comes almost as a relief' Morning Star
'Haunting . . . atmospheric, all too believable' Irish Times
Über den Autor Kate O'Riordan
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Kate O'Riordan was brought up in the west of Ireland. She is the award-winning author of five novels, and has also written for stage and screen and most recently has been writing scripts for ITV's Mr Selfridge. Her novel Penance is now a major TV drama on Channel 5. She lives in Twickenham.
