A small Cornish town; two women share a past. One a lawyer with no respect for the law, the other a doctor, with no respect for human life; both trapped by rage.

What happens when their paths cross and history catches up with them?
Can they escape the cages they have built?

Lawyer Claire McBride is a good person.

She believes in fair play and operating within the rules but when told by her consultant, the cancer she thought she’d beaten is terminal, she descends into a dark and alien place at odds with her character. Compelled to right wrongs and punish those who have caused harm and avoided justice she seeks to take back ownership of what little life she has left.

She does not know there is someone from her past, far more dangerous than her, who calls the shots. Issy Moran, Claire’s consultant; a bitter, deranged, narcissist, has for years routinely ended the lives of those patients she judges unworthy of treatment.

She’s getting back in the game, one blog post at a time.

Samantha Higgins never thought driving her husband’s car would forever change her life. But one conversation later, heard through his Bluetooth, and Samantha is changing her last name. While trying to figure out who Samantha Decker is, she writes what she thinks is one final post on her blog, announcing her divorce. When the post goes viral, she finds herself with a new title, The Sidelined Wife, and an unbelievable following.

Then her younger brother’s best friend, Reed Cassidy, who she used to babysit, moves back to town as the new head football coach for her son’s high school team. Reed has harbored a crush for his old babysitter all these years. But, Samantha isn’t keen on dating anyone, much less a younger man who used to booby trap her bedroom with firecrackers.

A private corporation lands on Mars before NASA in the 2020’s. The secrets they learn from the Martian rock revolutionize energy and genetics for those exposed to an ancient artifact of unknown origin. On Earth, mismanagement of the world economy led to a global collapse. The corporation, rich from its exploits on Mars, buys out the debt of the world governments and takes total control of the globe. Corporate greed drives Earth to treat her own Martian colonies as slaves for personal gain. These colonies throw off the corporate oppression in a violent revolution.

Fast forward to the year 2048 and Bowen, a competition fighter with a twisted sense of sarcastic humor, witnesses his world being ripped in half when the Martian colonists come back bringing a tidal wave of vengeance. In order to survive and stop the horrific violence he learns he must bring a naïve princess of the Martian Empire to safety.

Rekindling old flames with my billionaire boss was never in my imagination.

Starting as Steve’s secretary was a dream come true, but it turned into a bittersweet reunion.

Childhood friends and secret admirers, I’m falling for him all over again.

The fact that he’s a single dad adds another layer.

Yet, his damaged past keeps me wondering if he’ll ever see me as more than his secretary.

With each passing day, the magnetic pull between us intensifies.

Yet, the courage to confess my feelings remains elusive.

The weight of unspoken words and missed chances threatens to keep us apart.

Love’s second chance awaits, and I must decide whether to risk it all or let it slip away.