From the award-winning author of 'The Killer's Cousin'

"I didn't want it to be this way between us, Marnie. But from the very first time I met you, I think I knew that it would have to be."
Marnie later remembered everything else, but not the actual feel of the sharp blow to her head.

16-year-old Marnie, daughter of a dead superstar, lives in the comforting world of her favourite Internet adventure game. There she spends her time battling an intriguing rogue called the Elf. But closing herself off from everyone doesn't mean that she's safe. Because Marnie is suddenly kidnapped and finds herself locked in a lonely basement. As she desperately tries to escape her jailer, she longs for just one more battle of wits with the mischievous Elf…

"As she did in 'The Killer's Cousin', Werlin offers a compelling thriller that will have readers turning pages."
'Booklist'

Praise for 'The Killer's Cousin':

"Highly unsettling mystery…Henceforth may everything that the American Nancy Werlin writes be published here in the UK too. HIGHLY RECCOMMENDED"
'achuka.co.uk'

"Gripping from beginning to end."
'Sunday Express'

Guilt, murder, ghosts - will David and Lily ever escape the past? Recently acquitted of accidently killing his girlfriend but still crucified with guilt, 17-year-old David has moved to Massachusetts to complete his senior year of high school. His aunt and uncle have offered him shelter. His attic apartment in their house is full of ghostly shadows at night, his aunt is cold, and his 11-year-old cousin Lily is hostile. As Lily's behaviour becomes more threatening towards him, David wonders what secrets lurk within Lily. The more he thinks about Lily, the more he is forced to deal with his own past. Is Lily a killer too?

16-year-old Frances Leventhal, half Japanese, half Jewish American, can't bear to look at herself in the mirror. She has hidden from herself and everyone around her for years, and now that her brother Daniel has committed suicide by taking a massive heroine overdose, she can't help thinking that it's all her fault. If she hadn't been so caught up in her own insecurities, maybe she would have noticed her brother's pain. It's time to stop hiding ? to reach out to Daniel's friends at their private school, where they were both scholarship pupils. Daniel had been deeply involved in Unity Service, the charitable group famed across the country for its work through schools, and Frances is determined to join the group and somehow make amends.

But something's not right about Unity, and soon Frances finds herself in the middle of a puzzle too ominous to ignore. Exactly what are the Unity members trying to conceal? This time, Francis isn't hiding. The memory of her brother is at stake.