Emily Winslow est une auteure américaine dont les romans explorent les liens complexes entre les individus et les circonstances qui façonnent leur vie. Sa prose distinctive plonge dans les complexités des relations humaines et la recherche de sens dans le monde moderne. L'œuvre de Winslow se caractérise par sa profondeur psychologique et son examen perspicace des expériences quotidiennes. Son écriture offre aux lecteurs un regard profond sur la condition humaine.
Polly and Liv are American students at Cambridge University. Both strangers to their new home, they quickly become friends and find a common interest in Nick, a handsome and seemingly guileless graduate student. But a betrayal, followed by Nick's inexplicable disappearance, brings long-buried histories to the surface.
Maxwell is living his worst nightmare when he begins to question whether his fiancee Imogen is his own blood sister, separated by adoption. A visit to Imogen's birthplace in Cambridge stirs up deja vu that intensifies his fears.While Detective Chief Inspector Morris Keene languishes at home, struggling with a debilitating injury and post-traumatic stress, his former partner Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann is following a suicide case in which Morris' daughter Dora is suspected of assisting the death. When buried skeletons are discovered next to an old barn, the suicide is linked back to Imogen's childhood, revealing horrors of the past and new dangers in the present.
A nameless body and some obscure letters lead Frohmann and Keene to Deeping House, where they begin to unravel a web of passions and secrets, of long- buried crimes and fresh horrors. Through the eyes of five different characters, the story unravels -