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When teenager Leia Thompson drops dead in a shopping mall of apparent natural causes, Detective Jaqueline ‘Jack’ Kent is the only one convinced something isn’t right. Why was Leia at the mall alone? Why are there scars–old and new–all over her body? Visiting Leia’s mother, Jack quickly realises that she controlled every aspect of her daughter’s short life, home-schooling her and moving town every few months. At their house, Jack finds a room crammed with records detailing the teenager’s complex medical history right from the moment of her birth.

Emerging triumphant from the firing line of war is no easy feat... In war-torn Warsaw, Anna joins the Polish resistance, risking everything for freedom with memories of her fanatical Nazi husband fueling her determination. As she grows close to the resistance, a kind doctor named Mateusz ignites dreams of a different life. But her happiness is shattered when her husband resurfaces. Now, Anna must masquerade as his wife once more to gather vital information.

When the body of a beautiful and wealthy doctor is discovered in her high-rise apartment – all alone with the doors locked from the inside – nobody can understand how or why her life has been so brutally cut short. Detective Jacqueline “Jack” Kent may have never worked a murder case before, but that’s not going to stop her trying. It seems Ana’s murderer may have scaled the ten-story building to get in – and Jack should know.