AustLit

'One year ago, my boyfriend almost killed my mother.

'One year ago, my whole world ended.

'The boy I loved was the boy who ended my world; Leo drank too much, got behind the wheel and smashed his car into my mother's as she drove home from work. I believe him when he says it was an accident, but there’s only so much forgiveness you can dole out when you’ve seen your mother laid out on a hospital gurney, all pale skin and damp hair from where they’ve tried to wash the blood away. There's only so much forgiveness you can dole out as you watch a nurse feed her through a feeding tube, because your mother has turned into a ghost.

'Yesterday the postman handed me a letter from the prison where Leo’s being held. Leo’s getting out. The boy who stole my mother and thrust me into this hell? He gets to walk free after one lousy year. He gets to move on with his life, and start again, and I’m trapped in this nightmare that never seems to end.

'One year ago, my boyfriend almost killed my mother.

'One year ago, my whole world ended.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Ten years ago, the Gypsy Brothers took me.

'It started with blood.

'It was always going to end the same way.

'The question was – whose blood? Who got to live, and who had to die?

'If you think you know how my story ends – you have no idea.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'They say love conquers all.

'It's a lie.

'Five days a week, I dressed in smart business clothes. I painted my face, and went to work as an accountant. But nothing about my life was normal.

'For eight years I had been the property of the Gypsy Brothers Motorcycle Club. I laundered their money so well they'd never let me leave. My only glimmer of light was the man I loved. The man who had saved me.

'Dornan.

'His love had been the only thing that kept the demons at bay. But he'd become so immersed in the cartel's brutal business that I hardly knew him anymore.

'Dornan had been my salvation, but he was also my undoing.

'Would he pull me down into the darkness until he destroyed me? Could I save him?

'Did I even want to?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.