Publisher's Synopsis
London, 1973. Nina Dryden waits nervously in the car with her fiance, Matt, just outside Pentonville Prison. Matt's twenty-three year old son Alex is to be released after serving four years in prison for killing a young boy in a hit-and-run accident. Nina is anxious to meet Alex for the first time and to make the best first impression she can. But she's also carrying the heavy burden of a secret. A secret about Alex. The energetic teenager Alex once was has become a difficult and angry young man. His sister Beth, Matt and Nina do all they can to bring him back into the family fold. Nina even finds him a job working as a clerk in a solicitor's, but Alex begins digging into the firm's system of locating alibis and uncovers some sinister truths. Soon Nina is dragged into exposing the fraud too, but it threatens to expose the lies she's been telling . . . lies that could destroy her whole world.
