A powerful, suspenseful novel of an unthinkable accident—and its long, devastating aftermath—by the author of Fall from Grace.A boy is arguing with a girl on a park bench. A few miles away, a mother is pushing a baby buggy along the pavement. Minutes later, their paths will cross, and lives will be forever changed . . . In the hours before the accident, Benjamin was the recipient of an athletic scholarship at an American college—his dream come true. But it meant he had to have a difficult conversation with his girlfriend. Beth was a new mother struggling with postpartum depression, tempted to numb her pain and guilt with an extramarital affair. And Tim, Beth’s husband, was overjoyed with, and deeply devoted to, his little Ruby. In the wake of the accident, their lives are dramatically altered. And in the following decades, their individual paths will cross once again . . .

How many bad decisions does it take to go from a conventional life to one where murder makes perfect sense? Not as many as you’d think . . . Adrian Smythe is employed, married, and a doting father to Lydia. But he feels confined and thinks his life lacks purpose. In an act of quiet rebellion, Adrian quits his job. He hides this decision from his wife, fearing her judgment, until finally revealing it weeks later. Appalled by his behavior, she exposes him as a fraud and a failure to their daughter. Infuriated that his wife tarnished the thing most precious to him, Adrian goes on a rampage before leaving the family home. He moves into a small flat by the seaside, while his wife moves to France with their daughter. Now, disconnected from everything in his past, he is finally free of the constraints he resented so much. But Adrian’s new life may not be exactly what he bargained for. In fact, it could be his...