A mans past crashes into his present, with deadly results . . .bIn the late 1970s James Reed spent all his school holidays at the sprawling country home of Humphrey and Lily Murthington. They were wonderful days of freedom and excitement. But then something chilling happened that turned James s teenage years upside down . . . Twenty-four years later, out of the blue, James is summoned to Lily Murthingtons bedside. She is dying and has some devastating news. For Lily was James s first lover, and now she tells him that he fathered a child. Not only that, their daughter Kate is on the run for murder. James s stable, middle-class life is about to be turned upside down once more. And a secret far more sinister than a long-lost child is about to bubble to the surface . . .