Now in trade paperback for the first time from Anchor Canada, Joy Fielding's first thriller! Those goodbye kisses Donna received from her children when ex-husband Victor picked them up for their day's outing with him were for all time . . . forever. Only Donna did not know that, and the memory of her children's kisses on the day they disappeared come back to haunt her, for Victor did not return. Instead, this handsome, twisted man, who had destroyed their marriage and almost destroyed Donna's sanity, vanished with her little boy and girl. And Donna was left with a lover whose love was no longer enough, a new life that had suddenly turned agonizingly empty, and a terror-filled quest to find her children that would take her across the country and beyond the law . . .

ジョイ・フィールディングが放つ本作の本質は、愛が狂気へと反転する瞬間の凄絶な美しさにあります。我が子を奪われた母が、絶望の淵で「母性」を武器に立ち上がる姿は、魂を激しく揺さぶります。法を越えてまで愛を求める彼女の彷徨は、単なる追跡劇を超え、人間の尊厳を問う深遠なテーマへと昇華されています。 実写映像が緊迫感を鋭く描き出すのに対し、原作は主人公の痛切な内面を言葉で紡ぎ、心に消えない傷痕を残します。映像で視覚的に体感し、書籍でその深淵な心理をなぞることで、物語の解像度は極限まで高まるはず。二つのメディアが重なり合う時、あなたは恐怖を凌駕する無償の愛の正体を目撃することになるでしょう。