"How can she prove her innocence to save her son, when she's already been convicted of murdering his father?Art school dropout Lucie is on a backpacking trip across Europe when she arrives in the idyllic Swiss Alps. A holiday romance with ski instructor Mathieu takes a crucial turn when Lucie discovers she is pregnant. Spiralling into a relationship of coercion and dark domestic abuse, Lucie is powerless to escape her marriage without losing her son.
Seven years on, Lucie is serving a sentence in a Swiss prison for a murder she insists she did not commit. Surrounded by an eclectic group of inmates, Lucie must summon all her strength and intuition to uncover long-kept secrets and fight for her freedom to be reunited with her son before he is abducted by her husband’s family.
The clock is ticking . . . but who can she trust?"
"You stop him from jumping and he thinks you're his saviourThen you become his obsession
How far would you go to protect your family?
When Alice Reed is on her morning jog in the peaceful Swiss Alps, she unexpectedly saves a stranger on a notorious suicide bridge. But could her Samaritan deed turn out to be the first of many mistakes?
Adamant they have an instant connection, Manfred’s charm gradually darkens and his obsession with Alice grows stronger. In a country far from home, where the police don’t believe her, the locals don’t trust her and even her husband questions the truth about Manfred, Alice has nowhere to turn.
And she begins to think she should never have saved him that day on the bridge...
FINALIST in the EXETER NOVEL PRIZE
LONG LISTED for the BATH NOVEL AWARD"
