PURSUIT

Award-winning US bestselling writer presents a suspenseful, alternating narrative that travels back and forth between the present and Abby's tortured childhood in an eerie complex thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past. As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night in which she wandered through a field full of human skulls and bones. Now an adult, she thinks she has outgrown her demons, but the evening before her wedding the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. Less than 24 hours after exchanging vows, Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine whether this is an absentminded accident, or a premeditated plunge. He quickly discovers a mysterious set of clues about what his wife might be hiding. Why is there a rash-like red mark circling her wrist? What does she dream about that causes her to scream and awaken? Slowly Abby begins to open up to her husband revealing the story of a terrified mother, a jealous, drug-addled father, and a daughter's harrowing captivity. Stylistically dashing as we expect from this superb writer. 216pp, non-mint.