
Not just good sex, or great sex, Alice thinks, but “obliterating sex.” She also thinks she might be going mad. He’s Adam Tallis, a celebrated mountaineer, a hero, having recently saved several lives during a notorious and doomed climbing expedition.


When he asks her to go with him, she does. When she leaves her building later that day, he’s waiting for her. Crossing a street on her way to work one morning, she locks eyes with a tall, unbelievably handsome, stranger-and suddenly she’s lost. The direction of her life seems already settled, then, but it isn’t. She has a comfortable London apartment, a satisfactory lover, and an enviable job on the science side of industry.

Alice Loudon is young, brainy, and beautiful. After two in England, French brings her third to the US-an elegant, chilling take on love, murder, and obsession.
