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As housekeeper to James Jarvis' recently deceased father, a retired major general of the US Army, Mrs. Norris has raised Jimmie since boyhood. Now the Wall Street lawyer faces a challenging case. The son of one of the firm’s old blue-blood clients has been slapped with a paternity suit.

Vicky Clay awakens with chills. She's still glowing from her victory in last night's steeplechase - the genteel form of horseracing for which the Virginia gentry lives and dies - but that's not why her skin tingles. She has been poisoned, and within seconds she's as useless to the world as a thoroughbred with a broken leg. The stakes are high in the world of Virginia horseracing, where fortunes are won and lost by a hair.

'An unsettling, haunting story...memorable, atmospheric and tense' THE LADY 'Well-written, well-crafted and constantly gripping' DAILY MAIL 'A disquieting and atmospheric psychological novel' DAILY EXPRESS 'A grippingly dark thriller...Great writing from a master storyteller' RED MAGAZINE Norman...