Another haunting psychological thriller from Carla Banks, as the trade in people trafficking impacts on three disparate lives with shocking consequences.Roisin Massey is a stranger in a strange land. An impulsive marriage has brought this young British lecturer to the forbidding city of Riyadh. Thankfully, she has the best guide possible: her new husband, Joe.Joe knows Saudi well – he's worked there as a doctor for years. But Roisin discovers her husband is keeping secrets from her about his time in the Desert Kingdom. Such as the drug thefts from his hospital. The friend he saw beheaded. The woman who fell to her death...Soon the ghosts from Joe's past come back to haunt them both – and murder follows in their wake...

A gripping psychological thriller, taking the reader from 21st century Britain to the darkest days of war-torn Eastern Europe.The cries of the innocent echo through the years...Her obsession with history has cost Helen Kovacs her life. Helen's research into the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe was a secret she kept from even her closest friend, Faith Lange. Now Faith, retracing Helen's last steps, is convinced that the man the police have arrested is not the killer. Journalist Jake Denbigh's investigations have led him to the same conclusion.Faith is disturbed by Denbigh's digging. Among the refugees from the concentration camps of Minsk were war criminals masquerading as victims. Could Faith's beloved grandfather Marek be hiding such a secret? And does the reason for Helen's murder lie in the mass graves of the Kurapaty Forest -- or much closer to home?