Leah Mercer

Ich werfe einen Blick auf das Haus meiner Nachbarin Lou, als ich auf unser Grundstück fahre. Alles ist dunkel. Dabei sollten Lou und meine Kinder, auf die sie heute aufpasst, schon längst wieder zu Hause sein. Die Polizei hat Lous Auto gefunden, darin die Schulranzen meiner Kinder und Lous Handy.

I am always with you. I will always be here. This was the promise Ella’s mother betrayed thirty years ago when she walked into the sea, leaving her five-year-old daughter alone in the world. Ella’s been angry ever since, building up a wall to protect herself....

She’s woken up in a life she doesn’t recognise - with a daughter she doesn’t remember....

Zoe knows that it wasn't really her fault. Of course it wasn't. But if she'd just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might have saved him....

Discovering that the man she thought she knew better than anyone else is capable of abandoning it all sends Anna reeling....