Ridge’s body was never recovered, and Sloan’s mother-a brilliant ornithologist-slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. When he stumbles on a plan to overthrow the state and replace it with a terrifying new order, he may be forced to make a decision between his country and his heart. Meanwhile, as Nicholas comes closer to unveiling the real conspirator, the men who wish to silence him are multiplying.
When one of Shakespeare's boy actors goes missing, and Bianca discovers a disturbing painting that could be a clue, she embarks on her own investigation. As Nicholas races against time to save his father, he and his wife Bianca are drawn into the centre of a treacherous plot against the queen. In the court's desperate bid to silence it, an innocent man is found guilty - the father of Nicholas Shelby, physician and spy. And in London's dark alleyways, a conspiracy is brewing.
With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos. Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England. But is she really prepared for the horrifying truth she is about to discover?Content Warning: This book deals with themes of abuse and sexual assault. Soon, Lisa discovers she is not the only victim and becomes fixated on pursuing the perpetrator. What if he comes back for her-and she doesn’t even recognise him? Even co-workers and neighbours could be suspects . . . It doesn’t take long for fragments of the truth to come back, though, and when Lisa realises that she was assaulted by a man and left to die, she begins to live in fear, seeing threats everywhere she looks. Unsettled, she tells her husband that she was mugged by a young girl but insists he not call the police. But this time when she emerges, she is badly injured.
Lisa walks in the woods on a regular basis. How do you hunt a monster when you can’t remember his face? The author of Her Dark Past returns with a new novel of trauma, terror and missing memories . . .
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