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"Marshall writes with insight and humanity." Thomas Waugh Anna Pasternak wants to reinvent herself, to escape her life and find some answers. She enrols in a Psychology course in Bath but soon discovers that she isn't the only student in her class with a past. Carys Morgan is being stalked by her abusive ex-husband. Michael Cassidy is grieving for his wife. Even the cool, laid-back Jack Buchanan is hiding something. Anna just can't quite work out what. Everyone seems to be haunted, reliving old passions or discovering new ones. When Carys' ex-husband arrives in Bath to torment her, he stumbles into a revenge plot which sends them all spiralling towards tragedy. Amid disappearances and death, Anna begins to uncover the truth about her fellow students. But the truth could cost Anna her life. Recommended reading for fans of Belinda Bauer, Julia Crouch and Erin Kelly. Catherine Marshall was born in Birmingham and studied Literature and Theatre at North Cheshire College. She began writing at the age of eleven and sold her first short stories to Jackie magazine while she was still a student. As well as contributing short stories to a variety of magazines, she has written and published two romantic novels. Catherine is also the author of Excluded and Still Water . She is married with two children and lives in Lancashire.

283 pages, Paperback

Published January 17, 2019

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Catherine Marshall

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Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee. She was the daughter of the Reverend John Ambrose Wood and Leonora Whitaker Wood. From the age of nine until her graduation from high school, Marshall was raised in Keyser, West Virginia, where her father served as pastor of a Presbyterian church from 1924 to 1942.

While a junior at Agnes Scott College, she met Peter Marshall, marrying him in 1936. The couple moved to Washington, DC, where her husband served as pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and Chaplain of the United States Senate.

In 1940, Marshall contracted tuberculosis, for which at that time there was no antibiotic treatment. She spent nearly three years recovering from the illness. Her husband died in 1949 of a heart attack, leaving her to care for their 9-year-old son, Peter John Marshall. He later also became a minister and author.

Marshall wrote a biography of her husband, A Man Called Peter, published in 1951. It became a nationwide success and was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1955. Her success encouraged her to keep writing.

Marshall wrote or edited more than 30 books, which have sold over 16 million copies.[citation needed] They include edited collections of Peter Marshall's sermons and prayers, and her own inspirational writings. Her most successful books were A Man Called Peter (1951); and her novel, Christy (1967), which was inspired by the story of her mother's time in the mountains teaching the impoverished children of Appalachia. Christy was adapted as a CBS television series, starring Kellie Martin, beginning in 1994.

In 1959, Marshall married Leonard LeSourd, who was the editor of Guideposts Magazine for 28 years. Together they founded a book imprint, Chosen Books. They had three children, Linda, Chester and Jeffery.

Marshall died on March 18, 1983 at the age of 68. She was buried alongside her first husband.

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