Cold to the Touch Author:Frances Fyfield Beautiful, volatile Jessica has long since burned her boats in Pennyvale, the village by the sea where she was born. She longs to return, but first she needs to secure the love of the powerful man who has spurned her obsessive adoration. — Sarah Fortune, her older, cynical friend, welcomes the chance to leave London in the hope that she mig... more »ht be able to effect a reconciliation between Jessica and her mother. The village both charms and distracts Sarah with hints of scandal and buried secrets, but soon cracks of distrust and jealousy show in the polite facades. Jessica tells her she is coming home, but she never arrives.
Sarah's instinctive knowledge of Jessica leads her back to the capital, fearful of what she will find. What she discovers reveals a truth more chilling than she could have imagine, but she has to return to Pennyvale to fully understand how Jessica was finally brough home, and why... « less