Her family is built on secrets and lies. Can she confront the truth she’s been running from for years?

Fifteen years ago, Berta fled from Madrid to London to escape the controlling mother who made her childhood a living nightmare. Now, following her mother’s death, she is forced to return and face the ghosts of her unhappy past.

But it is not long before she discovers that her own bleak memories are nothing compared to the dark deception lurking in her family. How did her sister’s loveless marriage really end? And is the loyal housekeeper really hiding the truth about the strange disappearance of Berta’s father?

As she searches for facts among the fiction, Berta finds a handful of letters that reveal a story more twisted than she could ever have imagined. And as she starts piecing together the sinister family mysteries that have always plagued her, it soon becomes clear that these dangerous secrets are not confined to the past…

Mercedes Pinto Maldonado was born in Granada, though she now lives in Málaga, Spain. She studied medicine, but left the field to devote herself to literature. She is currently working full-time on writing, reading, and creating novels. She is considered a humanist writer who can use any genre as the framework for her stories. Her website is www.mercedespinto.com.

Jennie Erikson graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a BA in history and anthropology. She earned an MA in medieval archaeology from the University of York in England and has worked on excavation sites on Easter Island, in Jordan, England and the western United States.

Jennie lives in Colorado with her husband, where she reviews his­tory books for her website (www.historybookreviews.com) and reads voraciously on every historical subject she can f