Publisher's Synopsis
Dr Ruth Hartland is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. But she is finding it hard to maintain her equilibrium, and professional skill is no guard against private grief. Today she is preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance. So when a new patient arrives at the unit - an unstable and traumatised young man who looks shockingly like Tom - she is floored. As a therapist, Ruth knows exactly what she should do in the best interests of her client, but her complicated feelings about how she has failed her own boy are clouding her professional judgement and leading her to make a very different choice - a decision that will have profound consequences. Before long, the unthinkable becomes a shattering reality...
