It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.
The birds had suddenly gone quiet, & the boy was certain the man was in the woods below him. & then a voice fractured the unnatural hush.
'I know you're in there.' The voice was harsh but high-pitched, sounding strained.
It chilled the boy.
Thirty years ago, Jack Renoir's idyllic childhood on his uncle's California apple farm was shattered when he witnessed a brutal murder. With a single shot, his life changed forever.
Three decades later, Renoir is a man preoccupied with secrets & lies
- a man who's forgotten how to trust. But when Kate Palmer walks into his San Francisco office, his carefully-controlled world is turned upside down. As his defences dissolve, Renoir moves to England with Kate to make a new start. But old habits die hard, & he is soon drawn into a murky world he hoped he had left behind for good. When his efforts to help Kate backfire, Renoir finds his unresolved past threatening to destroy his future...