Dorothy Hardy and Ann Lee have two things in common. Both are social workers with connections to the scandal-hit Calderbank children's home. And both have been abducted . . .
But there is another link between the two women - their former colleague Dr Christine Radcliffe, a sophisticated, self-possessed consultant psychologist. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Jameson, in a race to find the women alive and well, cannot ignore this connection. Especially when Christine is clearly nursing a dark, violent secret from her past.
