Publisher's Synopsis
Olivia Taylor is distraught after the break-up of her marriage and believes she has suffered the worst life can throw at her. Full of hope, Olivia leaves her marital home and begins to build a new life with her nine-year-old daughter, Ellie. But meeting her new neighbour, Michael Crossman, is the beginning of an unspeakable nightmare for Olivia. As Olivia struggles to hold her life together and shelter her daughter from further pain, decisions driven by lust, loneliness and ignorance finally catch up with her, with horrifying consequences. It is only through the re-telling of her story that we piece together what has led her to become a mere shadow of the woman she once was.
