Cirrus@Austlit

'Following a home invasion, a woman begins to wonder if her perfect life was a lie.

'Beth Jacobsen wakes up in the middle of the night to a home break-in and is held at knife point.

'Her faithful dog is injured when trying to fend off her attackers. Not so heroic is her husband, Marty, who seems to freeze and resign to whatever fate awaits her.

'Although they fight off the intruders, things are just about to get a whole lot worse.

'Marty makes a revelation that means they can’t go to the police. Rather they’ll head, with a new set of troubles, to secluded White Mist Lake Retreat.

'Yet instead of finding tranquillity and a chance to heal there, Beth will be forced to confront a sickening truth and the danger following in its wake.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A householder who is clearing out the loft comes across a carefully concealed box containing a video camera.

'When he plugs it in, unsure due to its age that it will even play, what he sees there has him immediately calling the police.

'Senior Sergeant Veronika Pope and her team in the Special Crime Squad study the footage of the torture of four individuals held captive, all physically and mentally abused.

'Assured this is no hoax, although all indications are that this happened long in the past, the team races to trace the identity of the victims.

'Someone got away with murder once, will Sergeant Pope permit them to do so again?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'When Amy and her boyfriend Zane move into a house together, she hopes they can put their rocky past behind them.

'She gets a job and befriends the older couple who live in the house next door. Amy is impressed by their sophistication, wealth, and love for one another and in turn they somewhat adopt her when Amy’s relationship with her boyfriend deteriorates rapidly.

'Jobless, often absent and clearly up to no good, Zane is jealous and increasingly abusive. His hold over the shy Amy has been strong, yet cracks are beginning to show.

'When a policeman knocks on her door one innocuous day, it is the start of series of events that will make the two households clash together in a fatal entanglement.

'Zane will see an opportunity and greed will get the better of him, but are their new neighbours quite the easy targets they appear to be?

'Amy is in the middle of it all and someone is going to get killed.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.