Sonny Fareham’s lover – and also her boss – is the charismatic Tony Bridgeman, a successful and ruthless man who usually geta what he wants. But for Sonny, the affair that hes promised a future of hope and happiness must end in desperate fear. Late one evening, Sonny overhears a private conversation between Tony Bridgeman and his wife. Only then does she realise she is in great danger.

          Confiding in the two women she can trust, Sonny must leave home to make a new life elsewhere. Shocked and afraid, she flees to the north of England where she meets a gregarious and motherly new friend, Ellie Kenny. When the mysterious and handsome David Langham seems drawn to her, she almost dares to believe that she could be happy again. But never far away is the one person who wants to destroy everything that she holds dear…