She shared her darkest secrets. Now someone is using them to destroy her.

New mother Shelly should be enjoying the happiest time of her life. She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby boy, Alfie.

But Alfie’s arrival has triggered something deep inside Shelly and now she finds herself at the mercy of crippling OCD and violent intrusive thoughts that terrify her. Desperate for help, she joins a therapy group led by renowned psychologist Dr Andrea Galanis.

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It doesn’t work. Instead of helping, somehow therapy seems to be bringing her very worst fears to life.

What Shelly doesn’t realise is that someone from her dark past has infiltrated the group. And now she is sharing her most private secrets with a person who is determined to rip her life apart, one painful piece at a time.

With everything and everyone she cares about under threat, Shelly has a simple choice – confront the horrifying truth she’s kept hidden for almost twenty years, or face every mother’s worse nightmare – losing the child she loves.

My Review

I couldn’t stop reading this – it’s real edge of your seat stuff! I started one evening but fell asleep with an hour to go, woke up at 6 am and finished it.

Initially, we know very little about Shelly, only that Olivia believes she did something so terrible fifteen years ago that it destroyed her life and that of her family. We don’t know what to believe, but no matter what it was, Olivia’s methods of getting revenge made me cringe. I couldn’t justify what she did for any reason whatsoever.

In fact I felt really sorry for Shelly (hoping she was innocent of whatever Olivia believes she did), otherwise I would have been really conflicted. Though the one I felt the most sympathy for was poor little Alfie. Shelly has severe OCD and has intrusive thoughts about suffocating him, and also stabbing husband Nick. But she never does it, and has begun attending a group therapy session so she can talk about her feelings.

Olivia, calling herself Jess, becomes more and more unhinged, and by the end the book is racing along at a cracking pace while she carries out her final plan. It was so well written and at times I could barely keep up! I’ll certainly be looking out for more from this author.

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Hailing from Yorkshire, OMJ Ryan worked in radio and entertainment for over twenty years, collaborating with household names and accumulating a host of international writing and radio awards.

In 2018 he followed his passion to become a full-time novelist, writing stories for people who devour exciting, fast-paced thrillers by the pool, on their commute – or those rare moments of downtime before bed. Owen’s mission is to entertain from the first page to the last.

This is his first psychological thriller with Inkubator Books. OMJ also writes the Jane Phillips crime thriller series.

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