Publisher's Synopsis
David Walker is a professor at the Faculty of Further Psychology at Helmstone University. One night, he rescues a drowning swimmer off Helmstone Pier. She is Helen Costelloe, a beautiful woman with a past that does not add up and a present that quickly gets tangled with Walker's - until one night he finds her gone. Two years later, Walker receives an astonishing letter. Helen has inherited Malpas, a vast, crumbling Georgian house on one of Ireland's great rivers. Her new husband has drowned himself, and darkness is rising around her. She needs help. David has rescued Helen once, but he begins to realise that this time it may not be so easy - and that he is in danger too...
