Isabel Ashdown Books in Order

In 1984 Portsmouth, thirteen-year-old Jake watches his fractured family attempt to come together again. His mother's drinking and his parents' troubled relationship connect his childhood to secrets from Mary's past, stretching back to the 1960s.

Approaching forty, Sarah returns to a school reunion and revisits her teenage friendships with Tina and Kate. Memories of 1985, a boy named Dante, and a stay with Kate's family expose unsettling questions about the past.

Eighteen-year-old Luke Wolff spends the summer of 1976 on the Isle of Wight before leaving for college. A holiday camp job, friendships, and romance unfold alongside family secrets that threaten to change his understanding of home.

After winning the lottery in 1994, Wren abandons her husband Rob and their baby daughter. Twenty years later, a mysterious letter prompts Rob's new partner Laura to search for Wren and discover why she disappeared.

After sixteen years apart, Jess moves into her sister Emily's Isle of Wight home to help care for baby Daisy. When Daisy disappears while Jess is watching her, mistrust and their shared history threaten the reunion.

Television crime presenter Martha investigates the disappearance of her childhood friend Juliet twenty years earlier. With their third friend Liv now running a youth charity, an accusation on air threatens to expose secrets from their teenage years.

Seventeen-year-old Eva wakes after an accident with gaps in her memory, confined to an attic by parents who claim to protect her. Fragments of a lakeside party and someone watching from the woods deepen her doubts.

Investigating a new death that resembles her sister's unsolved murder, Celine returns to unsettling questions about the past. Her search brings her close to Two Cross Farm, an isolated women's commune with tightly guarded secrets.

A summer party ends in a fatal fall at a luxury gated development in Dorset. The police investigation draws attention to the property's former life as a mother-and-baby home, where missing children left unanswered questions.

A plane crash devastates a hilltop camp and leaves eighteen-year-old Nell carrying guilt about the previous night. Investigator Ali Samson’s search for answers draws her into the damaged community, where an injured pilot’s missing memories complicate uncovering the truth.