For Libby, the job in New Zealand seemed perfect - a settled home for her daughter, and a chance to study the whales and dolphins. And when she met John-Cody Gibbs, with his deep understanding of the place, she thought she had found the right man, but he has a dark secret in his past to overcome.

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It is autumn in the town of Glastonbury when Lance Bradley receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Mysteriously, Rupert has stopped sending the money on which his siblings depend. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London, only to find that his friend has vanished. His employers want him tried for fraud, a Japanese businessman claims he has stolen a document of huge importance and a private detective is demanding payment from Rupert for trying to trace an American called Townley, a man with a suspicious past.
No sooner has Lance decided that all this is too risky for him to get involved in than he finds that he already is involved, and the only way out is to get in deeper still.

When forensic psychiatrist Natalie Vine decides convicted rapist Colin Heggarty is unfit for leave, he plots the most malicious revenge. At the same time, Vine is trying to save Vicky Jarret, who has plummeted from TV darling to murder suspect in one bloody move, and salvage her own sanity.