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‘You Haunt me like a beautiful jewel, hung in ghastly night’ – William Shakespeare Sam had kept his final promise to his late wife Annie, but sitting on the steps outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, he can hear a woman shouting behind him; their meeting will alter the direction of their lives forwver. But was their meeting by accident? Or had fate, or a force beyond their control, drawn them together? Both bear scars from their past: Sam’s due to a betrayal of love and trust – caustic memories that eat away at his soul; Penny’s because of guilt from early childhood, loney and friendless – blame which won’t allow her to believe in herself. When their friendship takes on a momentum of its own, Sam becomes drawn into her life as an actress – and the lives of her two meddling, eccentric aunties. But behind the scenes, simmering revenge and betrayal is being acted out …. a plot that could not only destroy Penny’s career and sanity, but Sam’s reputation as a man who, come hell or high water, never ever turns his back on friends.