It would be so easy just to stay there, submerged and warm where the world couldn't touch me and I wouldn't have to face tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. So easy. To let go. Painless. Quick. Following a vicious attack by a psychotic colleague, and reeling from the discovery that Matthew Lynes - the man she loves - is different, Professor Emma D'Eresby flees her college in Maine for her home town in England. There she comes to terms with a shattering revelation, and, just when she thinks she has the answers, faces her worst nightmare ...