有時候，幫助你重新站起來的，
不是親人、朋友，而是……
他鋼鐵似的指掌扣住我的頸項；
他的氣息吐在我耳邊，承諾他會殺了我。
這次他真的要殺了我，對吧？
坎德拉為了揮別傷心與陰霾，從澳洲搬回英國獨居，準備展開新生活。然而善良的房東凱爾與一對純真的雙胞胎兒女雅克遜與桑摩，卻意外闖入她本來希望平靜的生活。
與妻子分開的凱爾，難以接受婚姻的挫敗，忽略了對孩子的照顧與關心。突然失去媽媽的桑摩與雅克遜，對坎德拉產生如母親般的依戀。坎德拉刻意與人保持距離，卻在幫助凱爾與兩個孩子回到正常生活的過程中，不但成了他們的心靈依靠，也發現自己已深深依賴著他們……
有一天，坎德拉又遇見那個男人。那隻讓過去不堪回首的黑手再次緊緊攫住她的呼吸，她畏懼地躲避，卻逃不開他的追捕。偏偏悄然占據她心房的桑摩與雅克遜卻在此時失蹤，下落不明。她知道唯一能讓生命再度回歸正軌的辦法，只有勇於面對他，面對那一夜，那一夜被她信任的好朋友……
When Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, a divorced father of two, and begins a new job. She's looking forward to a fresh start and simple life. Kyle's five-year-old twins, Summer and Jaxon, have other ideas and quickly adopt Kendra as their new mother - mainly because she lets them eat marshmallows for breakfast. Kendra eventually becomes a part of their lives, even though she's hiding a painful secret that makes her keep everyone - especially children - at arm's length. Then Kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and things fall apart: she can't sleep, she can't eat, she's suspended from work, and the kids are taken away by their mother. The only way to fix things is to confess to the terrible mistake she made all those years ago. But that's something she swore never to do ...
中譯版由三采出版。
作者簡介
桃樂絲．庫姆森 Dorothy Koomson
非裔英籍的作者於13歲就寫了第一本小說《愛恨一線間》，在教會學校的同學間傳閱，引起轟動，也埋下日後持續寫作的種子。而後在里茲大學攻讀心理學與公共媒體學位，並赴倫敦大學深造，獲得新聞碩士學位。畢業後主編女性雜誌，也替報章媒體寫稿。
2003年發表處女作《丘比特效應》，獲得極佳的評價，從此展開小說家生涯。作者善於描寫都會單身女子的內心世界，筆觸尖刻幽默，生活細膩之處總教人忍不住動容，引起深刻的共鳴。
前作《我的孤兒寶貝》、《晚安，美人》在台出版，讀者佳評如潮，蟬聯五大書店暢銷書榜。
After two years living in Sydney, Australia, Dorothy Koomson is probably now living somewhere in the northern hemisphere (but you just never know with her). Her third novel, My Best Friend's Girl, was a Richard & Judy Summer Read 2006 and reached no 2 on the Times Bestseller charts.
