Dominic Thorburn

London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections and money, he?s never had to work and he?s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family?s noble title, wealth and estates and all the responsibility that entails. It?s a role he?s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face. But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THEN SHE WAS GONE In a large house in London?s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They?ve been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go? Two entangled families. A house with the darkest of secrets. A...

London. June 2019, early morning: on the foreshore of the River Thames a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag are the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly 30 years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen while a baby waited upstairs...