Proud, iron-willed Tennessee widow Tamsin MacGreggor is wanted-dead or alive-for a crime she didn't commit. But out West the law is shoot first, ask questions later. So she's running for her life-with notoriously handsome bounty hunter Ash Morgan in hot pursuit.

Tamsin is Morgan's match, shrewd and strong enough to escape his capture. Twice. But catching her now is more than Morgan's duty-it's personal. For somehow she has slipped past his defenses and stolen his well-guarded heart. Their passionate love erupts in the wilds of a harsh, unforgiving land where a bounty hunter must finish his job-and an innocent woman will do whatever it takes to save herself from a hangman's noose…

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.

Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.  

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Una llamada imprevista y la vida cambia por completo. Una visita inoportuna y todo el futuro que habían soñado juntos se derrumba dolorosamente. La policía da a Eleanor Falkner la peor de las noticias posibles: su mando, Greg Manning, ha fallecido en un suburbio solitario de las afueras de la capital, después de que el coche que conducía se despeñara por un terraplén por causas desconocidas. Sin apenas tiempo para asumir esta tragedia, Eleanor encaja un nuevo mazazo: al lado de Greg yace también muerta una mujer, Milena Livingstone, de la que nunca había oído hablar.

Presa aún de la consternación y la pena, Eleanor no puede acallar la sombra de una duda que la atenaza: quién era aquella misteriosa desconocida a la que todo el mundo a sus espaldas se refiere con la etiqueta de «amante secreta». Ignorando los bienintencionados consejos de familiares y amigos, que la invitan a rehacer su vida y olvidar una supuesta infidelidad matrimonial, Eleanor se empeña en investigar minuciosamente los últimos días de Greg y de la última mujer que lo vio con vida, una decisión que, sea cual sea la verdad final, acaso la ayude a superar la traumática pérdida… Aunque tal vez se exponga también con ello a poner en peligro su vida.

'This is not my world. Something is wrong, askew. It is a Monday evening in October. I am Ellie Falkner, 34 years old and married to Greg Manning. Although two police officers have just come to my door and told me he is dead… '

It's devastating to hear that your husband has died in a horrific car accident. But to learn that he died with a mystery woman as his passenger is torment. Was Greg having an affair?

Drowning in grief, Ellie clings to Greg's innocence, and her determination to prove it to the world at large means she must find out who Milena Livingstone was and what she was doing in Greg's car. But in the process those around her begin to question her sanity… and her motive. And the louder she shouts that Greg might have been murdered, the more suspicion falls on Ellie herself. Sometimes it's safer to keep silent when someone dies…