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 novel—perfect
for readers of Jodi Picoult—about the darkest secrets a
family can hide.
Alex Lake’s life is centered on helping people. Her job as a
social worker in a British seaside town is more than a
career: It’s 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
—she’s perfectly healthy and lives in a very nice home—she’s
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 Alex’s superiors seem
unwilling to help, Alex knows she will have to risk
everything—her job and the life she loves—to 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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