‘It was more than possession, more than union, more than love. It was absolute confidence. It was certainty, and a promise of certainty always’ Adam and Rachel, childhood sweethearts, are getting married at last. Rachel is everything Adam has ever imagined in a wife and her parents adore him. A life of easy contentment awaits, at the heart of the community. But then Rachel’s reckless American cousin returns to the family fold. Ellie represents everything that Adam has striven to avoid – and ev...