A Lesson In Cruelty: The twisty thriller that will leave you breathless

About this book

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Anna wants a fresh start after three long years behind bars, a chance to step back into the world without being dragged by what came before.

Lucy is fixed on the attention of the one man she cannot have, her alluring Oxford professor, and the wanting has started to shape her days.

Marie has lived too long as a recluse, hemmed in by someone else’s rules, until staying hidden no longer feels like safety.

When these three strangers stumble into an elaborate web of lies, they find a dead body at the centre of it, waiting like a truth no one planned to meet. What each of them longs for begins to look costly, and the bargains they thought they were making shift under their feet.

The question is not only what they have found, but what it will ask of them, and whether there will be time to step back.