If You Walked In My Shoes - Softcover

A successful career woman, wife and mother of two stepsons, Coreen Holmes Treadwell has done well for herself - in spite of the heart-wrenching secrets that haunt her. At seventeen Coreen was the victim of a vicious date rape and the subsequent unwanted pregnancy that ended in adoption. Neither the passage of time, nor her own silence, has dulled the pain. Even now, years later, Coreen is torn between guilt towards the daughter she never knew and the family she has never been completely honest with. Unable to help herself, Coreen focuses her energy on helping others, becoming the renowned head of a social welfare agency. But success is a double-edged sword because she fears her rising fame will mean that the daughter she abandoned may just come to recognise her. In fact, it is only a matter of time...When a thirty year old Frieda Davies finally locates her biological mother, her goal is not a warm embrace or poignant reunion. Rather, after suffering years of abuse at the hands of her adoptive father, she yearns to find her mother and tell her of the horrific consequences of her decision.

Observing Coreen from afar, Frieda is increasingly driven to punish her and sets out on a devious course to infiltrate her life. It is a mission of vengeance, betrayal and seduction that will touch everyone Coreen loves and end in an explosive climax that will change them all forever.