Working for a charity, Julianna Baptiste locates missing women. With little to show for her efforts, she contemplates quitting. Then her boss, Jackson Haynes, asks her to find out why Hannah, his new secretary, is hiding bruises.
Still traumatised by her own abduction, Julianna desperately wants to prove her worth as an independent detective. Can she uncover what’s going on behind the front door of Hannah Harper's suburban London house?
What Julianna discovers is more than she ever anticipated. And when a women's refuge goes up in flames, Julianna is faced with a dilemma; does she break the charity's rules and carry-on investigating, or give up and let fate run its course?
Rae Shaw is a pen name for the author Rachel Walkley.
Rachel is based in the North West of England. She read her first grown-up detective novel at the age of eleven, which proved to be a catalyst for filling many shelves with crime books including police procedurals and historical mysteries. They grow in number whenever she visits a bookshop. As well as crime, Rachel likes to unplug from the real world and writes mysteries that have a touch of magic woven into family secrets.