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At the house next door, respectability can hide all manner of sins. When Sonia, forty-three, meets Jez, the gorgeous teenage boy who shows up on her doorstep, she's prepared to sacrifice everything to keep him. Fiercely drawn to Jez by a compulsion she scarcely understands, Sonia is drawn into a dark and intense world of obsession and crime next door, where apparent respectability can hide all manner of sins.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Penny Hancock
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