A weekend escape. A body in the water. And nowhere to run when the storm closes in.

Mal Peck’s peaceful bridge weekend at an idyllic Cornish island hotel takes a deadly turn when the young bride of a fellow guest is found drowned. Her plans shattered, Mal is pulled into a spiralling puzzle, one that turns darker still when another body surfaces.

As a savage storm cuts the island off from the mainland, Mal teams up with her friend Jacques Pellofey to hunt a killer. But Jacques’s strange, evasive behaviour gnaws at her trust. Is he helping her… or hiding something?

In a web of smuggling, grudges, and dangerous secrets, Mal’s search for the truth becomes a razor’s edge walk between survival and disaster. When the hunter becomes the hunted, she must outwit a killer before the tide - and time - swallows her whole.

For lovers of atmospheric settings, unforgettable characters, and devilishly clever mysteries, prepare to lose yourself where the waves hide more than they reveal.


Anna Penrose is the pen name of best-selling author, Liz Hurley. She lives in Mevagissey, Cornwall where she and her husband are the proud owners of Hurley Books bookshop.

A weekend escape. A body in the water. And nowhere to run when the storm closes in.

Mal Peck’s peaceful bridge weekend at an idyllic Cornish island hotel takes a deadly turn when the young bride of a fellow guest is found drowned. Her plans shattered, Mal is pulled into a spiralling puzzle, one that turns darker still when another body surfaces.

As a savage storm cuts the island off from the mainland, Mal teams up with her friend Jacques Pellofey to hunt a killer. But Jacques’s strange, evasive behaviour gnaws at her trust. Is he helping her… or hiding something?

In a web of smuggling, grudges, and dangerous secrets, Mal’s search for the truth becomes a razor’s edge walk between survival and disaster. When the hunter becomes the hunted, she must outwit a killer before the tide - and time - swallows her whole.

For lovers of atmospheric settings, unforgettable characters, and devilishly clever mysteries, prepare to lose yourself where the waves hide more than they reveal.


Anna Penrose is the pen name of best-selling author, Liz Hurley. She lives in Mevagissey, Cornwall where she and her husband are the proud owners of Hurley Books bookshop.

A weekend escape. A body in the water. And nowhere to run when the storm closes in.

Mal Peck’s peaceful bridge weekend at an idyllic Cornish island hotel takes a deadly turn when the young bride of a fellow guest is found drowned. Her plans shattered, Mal is pulled into a spiralling puzzle, one that turns darker still when another body surfaces.

As a savage storm cuts the island off from the mainland, Mal teams up with her friend Jacques Pellofey to hunt a killer. But Jacques’s strange, evasive behaviour gnaws at her trust. Is he helping her… or hiding something?

In a web of smuggling, grudges, and dangerous secrets, Mal’s search for the truth becomes a razor’s edge walk between survival and disaster. When the hunter becomes the hunted, she must outwit a killer before the tide - and time - swallows her whole.

For lovers of atmospheric settings, unforgettable characters, and devilishly clever mysteries, prepare to lose yourself where the waves hide more than they reveal.


Anna Penrose is the pen name of best-selling author, Liz Hurley. She lives in Mevagissey, Cornwall where she and her husband are the proud owners of Hurley Books bookshop.