A gripping psychological thriller from the winner of the 2014 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Novel Writing Competition.

'My daughter is a liar . . . and I’m starting to see where she gets it from.'

When Rosalind’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Stephanie, ran away with her teacher, Nathan Temperley, this ordinary family became something it had never asked to be.

Their lives held up to scrutiny in the centre of a police investigation, the Simms were headline news while Stephanie was missing with a man who was risking everything.

Now, six years on, Ros takes a call that will change their lives all over again.

He’s going to be released from prison. Years too early. In eleven days’ time.

As Temperley’s release creeps ever closer, Ros is forced to confront the events that led them here, back to a place she thought she’d left behind, to questions she didn’t want to answer.

Why did she do it? Where does the blame lie?

What happens next . . . ?