Hollie Overton je televízna scenáristka a producentka, ktorej debutový triler sa stal medzinárodným bestsellerom. Jej diela, ovplyvnené jej texaským pôvodom a životom v LA, sa často zameriavajú na napínavé zápletky a hlboké psychologické sondy postáv. Overtonová skúma zložité vzťahy a morálne dilemy s bystrým okom pre detail a svižným tempom rozprávania. Jej písanie prináša čitateľom napínavý a pútavý zážitok.
From the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, Baby Doll, comes a riveting thriller with domestic violence, murder and how far one woman will go to protect her family at its core. Perfectly poised to exploit the criminal justice system she knows so well, Kristy sets out to get rid of Lance - permanently.
You've been held captive in one room. You've been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old. Then, one night, you realise your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked. For the first time in eight years you're free.
A psychologist working for the LAPD goes on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles' criminal underworld to track down her missing foster daughter in this gripping new thriller by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll.You'll do anything to protect her. But you'll have to find her first.When LAPD forensic psychologist Becca Ortiz agrees to foster teenage runaway Ash, she knows she will love and protect her as her own daughter.Ash may have turned her back on her old life on the streets, but there is still one person who she can't bear to lose. Now he is about to drag her back into a dark world where nothing and no one is safe.How far will Becca go to save her daughter?And can she find her before it's too late? For more from Hollie Overton, check out: Baby DollThe Walls
Kristy arbeitet im Todestrakt eines Hochsicherheitsgefängnisses. Kein Traumjob, aber die alleinstehende Mutter muss nicht nur für ihren Sohn, sondern auch für ihren kranken Vater sorgen. Kristys Schicksal scheint sich zu wenden, als sie den charmanten Lance kennenlernt, und er sie bittet, seine Frau zu werden. Kristy sagt überglücklich ja. Doch Lance ist ein perfider Sadist, der seiner Frau das Leben zur Hölle macht. Aber als er auch ihren Sohn und ihren Vater bedroht, geht er zu weit. Kristy hat in ihrem Job viel über Mord und Totschlag gelernt – und sie würde alles tun, um ihre Familie zu schützen. Wirklich alles …