A chance at a new life, a past that refuses to stay buried, and a dangerous encounter that threatens it all.

A new home and a new job, Victoria Turnbull is excited to get her life started—but hours after moving in with her boyfriend, her fairytale comes crashing down around her.

With no way out of her dreary reality, she jumps at a chance to start over when her friend Mel offers a, quite literal, escape. However paradise quickly turns to hell during a weekend break in Istanbul.

But this is not the first time Vicky has trusted the wrong people. Shamed into silence, can she summon the strength to confront her past, escape her captors and free both herself and Mel before it’s too late?

Packed with raw emotions, emotive backdrops and unexpected twists this fast-paced novella—the fearless prequel to ‘The Three Great Loves of Victoria Turnbull’ trilogy from new writer Isabella Wiles—is a coming-of-age story about the power of friendship and looking for love in all the wrong places.

A perfect read for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes and Jessie Burton.

"A sheer joy to read. You won’t want it to end" – Imogen Clark, million copy bestselling author of Where the Story Starts.

Fast-paced, character-rich and emotionally charged, this book has it all. 

A hidden secret, an unforgivable betrayal, one all-consuming passion

Victoria Turnbull has a job she loves, shares a house with her best friend, and her posh boyfriend loves her. On paper, her life is perfect, but in reality, she’s lost and floundering until an evening at the ballet gives her a glimpse into what she’s missing.

When Christopher Williams, the carefree back-packing Kiwi, lands unexpectedly in her life and seduces her, believing it’s what she’s yearning for — she falls hard.

However, Vicky is soon trapped by a hideous secret, and when she discovers Chris’s passion is matched by an equally hot-headed temper, she’s faced with unimaginable choices. The question is –– how much of herself is she willing to sacrifice for his love?

Will Vicky find the inner strength to reclaim her heart and heal her past, before dark truths unravel and destroy her chance at finding true love?

A fresh start, an open heart, an impossible choice.

Battered and emotionally bruised Victoria Turnbull is hiding away until a visit from an old friend encourages her out into the world again. Then when she stumbles into the arms of a handsome stranger, her life takes a new and exciting turn.

Craig Fenwick––the handsome stranger––is ambitious, outgoing and Vicky falls hard for the charismatic Craig. Finally, she can move on with her life and envisions marrying the man she believes loves her as much as she loves them.

Yet, Vicky is harbouring a shameful secret and unbeknown to her, Craig has a terrible secret of his own. The truth surrounding his brother’s death. Secrets that stop them from being truly intimate with one another. And when Vicky is reunited with her first love, Chris, at a friend’s wedding, following Chris’s heartfelt revelation, she charges head-first into a life-long promise.

But when Craig’s life begins to unravel after––to save Vicky’s honour––he publically punches his boss, Vicky must decide whether all promises are worth keeping after all, or whether she must put the needs of her own heart above all else, or risk ruining her––and Craig’s––life, forever.

An unconditional love, a life-changing loss, a heart-wrenching choice.

Successful and ambitious Victoria Turnbull has had enough of relationships––too many times she’s made painful sacrifices for love––but that was before she lands in the lap of a tall, quiet Welshman at her best friend’s New Year’s Eve party.

Recently divorced Gavin Williams is calm, caring and kind. He falls instantly for the enigmatic Vicky, but it’s only when a hurricane blows through the Caribbean, cruelly ripping the lovers apart, that Vicky finally realises she has everything she’s ever wanted in Gav, except the one thing she truly desires—a baby.

Surely a decade-old hidden secret won't stop her from having a child with the man she loves, until she discovers getting pregnant is one thing, staying pregnant… another.

Then when Gav's past slams unexpectedly into Vicky's present and she’s left reeling from a thirteen-year-old confession from former flame, Chris, everything she thought she knew about love, life and her past decisions, is thrown into turmoil.

With two Great Loves vying for her heart, will Vicky stay true to herself, or will her shameful secret stop her from having a family with the man she was always destined to be with?