The main protagonist of this novel is Jillian Kane. A well respected architect and a mother of two children with a handsome husband Jillian appears to have it all to the outside world. However, Jillian is keeping a secret that her picture perfect life is nothing but a fraud. With a husband who works in the police force Jillian has no one to turn to when her perfect husband starts abusing her.

Just a word of warning to potential readers. This is a very tight thriller centering around domestic abuse. At times the story made me physically cringe and at times I got felt ill reading about the ways in which Jillian was mistreated by her husband Gordon. I think it is because the author, Suzanne Redfearn, manages to write so well that you feel as if you are a silent witness to everything that Jillian is going through. Ms. Redfearn rights this character so well I honestly felt as if a real live friend was going through this and I was afraid that she would eventually be killed by her husband. I gave this novel five starts because I thought it perfectly encapsulated what a woman goes through while she is being abused and what happens to her afterwards even when she manages to get away. I now that this a reality that many women have gone through in their lives and reading about how Jillian does her best to protect her children--Addie and Drew--from Gordon and doing her best to not antagonize and at times to antagonize Gordon just so that either way she would have some peace manages to allow readers to feel just as helpless as Jillian.