S. E. Lynes

Everyone is going to the housewarming party. Attending will be all the same people who lived on the street the day Abi vanished....

Rachel is afraid she may have done something terrible. She's sitting in a room, being asked whether she killed someone. She doesn't understand how her life has changed so completely. When she was younger, heads would turn when she walked into a room.... 

I thought my sister was happy. I thought what we all thought: that Annie and Dom led perfect lives in a lovely cottage in a quiet village by the sea, with flowers at the front gate and an apple tree in the garden. But I never saw Annie as she sat waiting for Dom well into the night....

Thirty years ago, Nicola Watson lived with her parents and older brother in a respectable suburb. Now a successful lawyer in the city, with a life poles apart from her dark beginnings, Nicola has returned home for her mother’s funeral....

Christopher would never hurt anyone. Not intentionally. Even after everything that’s happened, I still believe that.... 

Samantha Frayn doesn’t know why Peter Bridges picks her - a nobody with bitten fingernails and a troubled childhood behind her - but she falls quickly. He’s older, charming, likes fine wine and French films, and his beautiful home has real art on its walls....

Fifteen-year-old Rosie lies in hospital fighting for her life. She’s trying to tell her mother what happened to her, but she can’t speak the words out loud....

Pippa wants a second chance. Recently divorced and unhappy, she uproots her life to move to a beautiful farmhouse in the countryside. One night, a stranger arrives at her front door. Pippa invites him in and, in a moment of madness, makes him an offer she believes could change everything....

When Glasgow journalist Shona McGilvery moves with her partner Mikey and their baby to an idyllic cottage in rural Scotland, they believe that all that lies ahead is happiness. But with Mikey working offshore, the frightening isolation of the countryside begins to drive her insane....