June Thomson and Giselle Ross are inextricably linked by two unspeakable acts of evil. On the same day, a few miles apart, their estranged husbands slaughtered their children. The murders were not driven by rage, or committed in moments of madness. They were planned, and carried out with chilling precision, to inflict the worst pain imaginable. June and Giselle did not know each other. Tragedy is all that binds them. In the passing of an afternoon, on a late spring day, they were destined to come together as ?sisters?, united by pain, grief and a sense of loss so immense that it would drive both to the brink of madness. Both women had separated from their husbands, and neither had had happy relationships. June?s life with Rab Thomson had been a dark and turbulent existence, characterised by mental torture, physical violence and rape. Giselle?s relationship with Ashok Kalyanjee had been a strange and distant affair, of lives spent apart before, during and after marriage. But both...