A brilliant thriller from 'one of the most sheerly entertaining and accomplished writers in the genre' DAILY EXPRESS'A superb thriller writer on great form' TIME OUT'Gripping, high-octane thriller in which a man is driven to his limits in search of his kidnapped daughter' WOMAN AND HOMEMarc Seidman's idyllic world is brutally ripped apart when he is gunned down in his home.

Twelve days later he wakes up in hospital to learn that his wife is dead and his baby daughter Tara is missing.

A ransom demand is made and agreed to. But something goes terribly wrong. The kidnappers escape, and Marc remembers the ransom note's ominous warning: there will be no second chance. An agonising eighteen months pass with no word. And then, as Marc has just about given up all hope of seeing his daughter again, a package arrives with a note attached: want a second chance?The note is chilling, but Marc sees only one thing: the chance to save his daughter. And, haunted by deception and deadly secrets - about his wife, about an old love, and about his own past - he vows to bring Tara home ... at any cost.