The Lying Guest

You don’t know her, but she’s watching you…Hardworking and overworked, Anika is a talented surgeon at a London hospital. It’s been some time since she’s had a decent night’s sleep, let alone a holiday. Not ideal for someone with parasomnia – a rare, often stress-induced, condition that causes sleepwalking blackouts.When a patient dies on her operating table, important people start asking questions and the media and her colleagues turn against her overnight.It seems her only respite is to escape on an all-expenses-paid housesitting gig in Sri Lanka and keep a low profile until the drama passes, and the verdict on her case – and career as a surgeon – is decided.Despite everything, she’s excited to visit the place she used to summer as a child. But what should be a restorative beach break becomes a trip back into a murky, haunted past, which has been waiting for her all along...A smart, twisty thriller that will transport you to the lush beaches of Sri Lanka... just be careful who you trust when you visit.