Masquerade

"Marshall writes with insight and humanity." Thomas Waugh

Anna Pasternak wants to reinvent herself, to escape her life and find some answers.

She enrols in a Psychology course in Bath but soon discovers that she isn't the only student in her class with a past.

Carys Morgan is being stalked by her abusive ex-husband. Michael Cassidy is grieving for his wife. Even the cool, laid-back Jack Buchanan is hiding something. Anna just can't quite work out what.

Everyone seems to be haunted, reliving old passions or discovering new ones.

When Carys' ex-husband arrives in Bath to torment her, he stumbles into a revenge plot which sends them all spiralling towards tragedy.

Amid disappearances and death, Anna begins to uncover the truth about her fellow students.

But the truth could cost Anna her life.

Recommended reading for fans of Belinda Bauer, Julia Crouch and Erin Kelly.

Catherine Marshall was born in Birmingham and studied Literature and Theatre at North Cheshire College. She began writing at the age of eleven and sold her first short stories to Jackie magazine while she was still a student. As well as contributing short stories to a variety of magazines, she has written and published two romantic novels. Catherine is also the author of Excluded and Still Water. She is married with two children and lives in Lancashire.