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