Book description
Beautiful, volatile Jessica has long since burned her boats in the
village by the sea where she was born. She longs to return, but first
she needs to secure the love of the powerful man who has spurned her
obsessive adoration.
Sarah Fortune, her older, cynical friend, is keen to distance
herself from her usual haunts and welcomes the chance to leave London
in the hope that she might she be able to effect a reconciliation
between Jessica and her mother. Pennyvale both charms and distracts
her with hints of scandal and buried secrets, but it soon begins to
disquiet her as cracks of distrust and jealousy show in the polite
façades. Sarah is excited when Jessica tells her she is coming home,
but she never arrives.
Sarah's instinctive knowledge of Jessica leads her back to the
capital, fearful of what she will find. What she discovers reveals a
truth more chilling than she could have imagined, but she has to
return to Pennyvale to fully understand how Jessica was finally
brought home, and why...
Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life practising as
a criminal lawyer, work which has informed her highly acclaimed crime
novels. She has been the recipient of both the Gold and Silver Crime
Writers' Association Daggers. She is also a regular broadcaster on Radio
4, most recently as the presenter of the series 'Tales from the Stave'.
She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the sea which is her
passion.
