Karen Harper is a politically incorrect, misanthropic, unforgiving bitch … and that’s just the opinion of her best friend, Nat. Under regular psychiatric care since witnessing her twin sister’s murder ten years earlier, Karen is barging her way through life with a giant chip on her shoulder. Now twenty-four, her only goals are to remove herself from society and give up dangerous one-night stands, the one activity that guarantees her a few hours of peaceful sleep.
The morning after a weekly ‘buddy night’ excursion with Nat, everything changes, and a mystery that began with her mother’s disappearance twelve years ago, threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to achieve.
Toughened by the loss of her family and an abusive care home upbringing, Karen meets mounting adversity head on. But when the odds are stacked against you, even the super-smart need help, and when an ex-gangster’s solicitor saves her from a knife attack, she begins to believe that the worst is over.
But her struggle is only just beginning.
