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You’re behind bars, framed for a crime you didn’t commit.
Midwife Ciara Duffy goes to sleep and wakes in the small hours to find her husband beside her – stabbed through the heart. Soon she is arrested and charged with his murder.
You get one chance to run.
Ciara knows she is innocent. She has no one to rely on. Meanwhile, her young daughter is gravely ill. Ciara has to fight – by any means necessary.
Do you take it?
The day comes when getting out might be possible. But Ciara’s choices are bleak: hope justice prevails and she gets to her daughter in time. Or become a fugitive on the hunt for a killer.
A compulsive thriller that grips and never lets go…
Amanda Cassidy is a freelance journalist, commissioning editor, former Sky News reporter, and an Irish Times bestselling author. She has been shortlisted for the Irish Journalist of the Year Awards, the Headline Media writing awards and more recently has been shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for her debut novel, Breaking. She’s a frequent contributor to national radio, print and television and holds a BA in French and Italian from Trinity College Dublin. Amanda lives in Dublin with her family.
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