Ballantine Books
May 2013
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Featuring: Alex Lake
560 pages ISBN: 0345547756 EAN: 9780345547750 Kindle: B00BABT9TQ Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
From internationally bestselling British author Susan Lewis comes an unflinching, thoroughly suspenseful novelโperfect for readers of Jodi Picoultโabout the darkest secrets a family can hide.
Alex Lakeโs life is centered on helping people. Her job as a social worker in a British seaside town is more than a career: Itโs the very essence of who she is. And though there are frustrations, Alex takes to heart the rewards of placing a child in a safe and loving home. But when she encounters three-year-old Ottilie Wade, Alex is completely unprepared for the effect the sweet, shy little girl has on her. Though on the surface Ottilie seems to want for nothing โsheโs perfectly healthy and lives in a very nice homeโsheโs mysteriously silent and asocial. Alex knows that something is not right in the Wade house. And the deeper she looks into the case, the more Alex comes to feel that she and Ottilie are being drawn together by fate.
As disturbing evidence mounts and Alexโs superiors seem unwilling to help, Alex knows she will have to risk everythingโher job and the life she lovesโto save Ottilie. But Alex will also have to wrestle the demons of her own past before she can secure a future for this child in need.
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