Jessica Hayles

Keeper Island is exactly the clean sheet hotel manager Lola needs. A billionaire-owned private resort, it's a dream job: white sand, palm trees, jewel-blue sea… all the paradise clichés. Super-exclusive, meaning fewer guests - and fewer people to know her location. The only connection with her previous life now is her old mentor and new boss, Mike Moxham.

But when Moxham is found dead less than 24 hours after Lola's arrival on Keeper, all hopes of a fresh start are banished. Because while everyone else is sure the death was an accident, they didn't know Moxham like Lola did - and they weren't there when he told her exactly what he's been up to on the island. Which means she might be next…

A young black man is arrested for murder. The case against him is strong - a mum and a teacher saw him standing over a body in a park, a knife still in hand.

But his up-and-coming barrister Rosa knows how people prejudge, but most of all, she suspects something is amiss. This boy comes from her neighbourhood. From a good family. So she begins to dig...

As Rosa discovers secret upon terrible secret, she moves closer to finding a testimony that could win the case - or bring the whole establishment down on her.