Ugly Darkness Within

Nicola Holiday is thirty-four when a hit-and-run kills her husband, wrecks her body, and leaves her fourteen-year-old daughter Emmy permanently altered, with nobody made to answer for it.

Grief, panic attacks, and financial ruin stir a darkness that runs in her blood, one she has spent years trying to escape, and it now speaks through a presence called Martha who wants revenge.

Nicola's sense of what is real begins to fail as Martha moves through a second existence built on money, glamour, and corruption.

An encounter with the wife of a famous actor sharpens Nicola's distrust.

Split between the need to retaliate and the danger of coming apart, the two of them press toward a woman whose secrets could unlock the whole story or finish them both.