Don’t Be Frightened, by Barbara Cooper

Some monsters know exactly how to look like saviours.

After a devastating fire at a Newmarket racing stable, Lucy wakes in hospital to learn she was rescued by Rory Fitzwilliam: handsome, attentive, and almost too perfectly kind. Haunted by the voices in her head and the childhood guilt she has never escaped, Lucy wants to believe Rory is the protector he appears to be. But as he draws closer, the world around her begins to shift in ways she cannot explain—and every doubt only makes her seem more unstable.

Years earlier, fourteen-year-old Sara trusted a charming stranger and lost everything. Now, after surviving trauma, addiction, and grief, she has one purpose: find the man who destroyed her life.

When Sara’s search leads her to Lucy, the two women must decide what is real, what has been planted in their minds, and how far they are willing to go to stop a predator who hides his cruelty behind care.

Secrets go deep and can be deadly.