"Rosie appears at the kitchen door. Her hair's tousled, eyes cloudy with sleep. She puts an arm around my neck and I hold her. Her warm, compact body, clean and innocent, brings back in a heartbeat so many memories of the past. Of everything I've lost. But when Becca meets Maddy, she feels so sorry for her. Maddy has lost everything - the victim of something so awful she can't even talk about it. Becca's struggles, next to Maddy's, are nothing - after all, Becca's got a beautiful family and a roof over her head. She should help Maddy - set a good example for Rosie and Alex, shouldn't she? But as Becky lets Maddy into her world, she begins to grow uneasy. Maddy refuses to talk about what happened in her past, and as Becky struggles to piece together what exactly happened, Maddy's behaviour begins to grow more unpredictable. Most worrying of all, Maddy is becoming increasingly attached to five-year-old Rosie..."--Amazon.
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