Circles of Confusion
by JJ GraftonPublish: May 25, 2020Suspense Women's Fiction Book Overview
Shadows of the past hang heavily on three runaways, who face their greatest fear just when they thought they had earned a new life …
Jilly Graham knows what it is to be used and abused. She also knows how to get what she wants. Poised to achieve a First Class Honours degree, it seems the world is at her feet and she has buried the memory of what she did to pay for her education.
For three years, Jilly has lived with Rob Knowley, a loveless relationship, but when she begins a project documenting the lives of local sex workers, Rob becomes violent and abusive and her future and past violently collide.
Tina Lloyd has been a sex worker since she was fourteen years old and craves a normal family life, although in her heart she knows she is only one of the women her husband, Noel, controls.
Their son, Leon, hates both his parents and is tormented at school because of Tina’s profession.
When Jilly is attacked by an unknown person and Tina’s pimp brutalises her, the three of them form an uneasy alliance and set out to exact revenge. Their plan goes horribly wrong and they thrown together as fugitives. Living together in close confinement, none of them trusting the others, this fragile group opens up to one another and brutally honest truths emerge.
Just when they think they have earned a new life, a violent action rips their fragile world apart.