"There it was in black and white, 'Baby snatched in Livingstone Park.' The park was exactly the same today as it had been then: it was everything else that had changed. Everything else had faded like a twenty-five year old newspaper cutting...or a dream."

Stella had always preferred to dream rather than experience the magnolia coloured monotony of waking life. Dreams transported her to a wide screen Technicolor world filled with mystery and wonder. This was a place where she was free from inhibition and doubt, able to experience love, friendship, thrills and adventure. The arrival of a baby confused everything. Her ability to distinguish dreams from reality became blurred. Life was slipping away beyond her control. Then she met Martina—'The Girl without the Kalashnikov'—and Stella's life, whether awake or asleep, spiralled into the realm of nightmares.

Jennifer Button lives in Kent with her husband and two dachshunds. In her second novel, she continues to explore the themes of guilt, trust and betrayal as her characters tread a fine line between truth and fiction, sanity and madness.