One dark secret. Two troubled souls. The lie that brings them together could tear them apart. Mina Everton's search for the criminal father who deserted her years ago draws her into the sinister underbelly of the suburbs and a lie twelve years in the making. Detective Lincoln Drummond is investigating a series of robberies. Simple. Until he meets Mina, who gets to him in ways he's never faced before, and it soon becomes clear the truth behind the robberies is far from simple. Despite Mina's growing feelings for Drummond, she can't bring herself to trust him. And the closer she gets to her father, the more she looks, and acts, like a suspect. To expose the truth she must choose - destroy herself ... or the only man who believes in her.Sometimes love isn't enough...Intoxicating suspense that will grip you from the start.

Rowena Holloway is an Australian author or suspense novels and short stories. Her novels have been nominated for the Ned Kelly Award Crime Fiction award and the Sisters In Crime Davitt Awards and her first novel, which was later published as All That's Left Unsaid, semi-finaled in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Her short stories explore crime, suspense, relationships and some of the darker English folklore, and these have been included in several anthologies including the Anthology of Award Winning Australian Writing.