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When Lives Collide

A hit-and-run puts two women on a collision course with fate, in this mind-blowing psychological thriller from the author of Exile.

It only takes one second to change a life. Loretta Davidson learns this the hard way when, on a rainy afternoon, her car crashes into another vehicle at an intersection. Loretta survives with only a few stitches. Her four-year-old son is not so lucky. Falling into a coma, he soon succumbs to his injuries, leaving Loretta and her husband devastated.

Emma Elliot’s four-wheel drive glanced off the car she hit, and she left the scene of the accident convinced no one was hurt. She could not be late running errands for her partner—or there would be hell to pay. He had hit her before, and he would do it again.

In the months following the accident, Loretta struggles to survive her grief as her marriage crumbles. Emma gets engaged—and then pregnant. But the twists and turns life throws at the two women have a way of balancing things out, sending them straight into one another’s paths one more time.

“The novel does what fiction does best: exploring the small moments that can change lives for good.” —The Bookbag

Sarah Bourne

Sarah Bourne was born and brought up in London and has lived in the United States, Japan, and now Australia. She worked in mental health for many years, and still works as a counsellor, as well as teaching yoga. Writing was never an aspiration, but one summer, with her three children getting older, she decided to write a short story, just for something to fill her time. But as these things do, writing quickly became more than a hobby. Her ‘apprenticeship’ was a young adult trilogy based on the ghost stories of Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon, but she then turned to adult fiction.

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