She woke up in the dark with water rising around her — and no idea who she was. Pulled from the edge of death by a man who asks for nothing in return, she finds herself in a stranger’s house in a coastal town with a name she can’t remember, a face no one recognises, and a terror she can’t explain. Chase Bartlett has always known better than to get involved in other people’s problems. But something in those frightened emerald-green eyes won’t let him walk away. As the fragments of her past begin to surface, so does the danger that put her in that water. Someone wanted her dead — and they’re not finished.

In the heart of the Karoo, where silence carries secrets, the lives of three women become entwined by fate. Clarissa,
young and heavily pregnant, seeks shelter from a storm and finds herself at the farmhouse of Serena Blackwood and her
daughter, Janet. But when Janet’s desperate longing for motherhood traps her in a web of lies and deceit, an innocent
baby becomes the center of a tragedy that will change all their lives forever. As Clarissa struggles to bury her past
and Dr. Julian Grant becomes unknowingly ensnared in the deception, the fragile balance between love, guilt, …