Mirror Mirror

DARE YOU LOOK? A shatteringly powerful page-turner Voted the world's most beautiful woman, twenty-three-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, plus top modelling and endorsement deals, Mira's meteoric rise to fame comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life. But celebrity extracts its pound of flesh. Threatened and harassed online, stalked by besotted fans, beaten up by a man who claims to love her, Mira is assailed on all sides. Home isn't safe, friends can't be trusted, freedoms melt away. Where does the image end and the real person begin? As the threats multiply, the biggest danger is overlooked. In Broadmoor, Britain's most notorious psychiatric hospital, one man has long been obsessed with this most perfect beauty. His crimes are so awful that a judge ruled they must never been revealed to the public. But his plans to possess Mira are well advanced, and he has the charm and the cunning to make them work. The most chilling thriller of the year Praise for Mirror Mirror 'Sparkles with tension,' Kate Mitchell, author of The House Fell On Her Head Praise for Bite "Fast, smart and terrifyingly plausible. Bite is a thoroughly assured thriller with an unusual and alarming setting - it sinks its hooks into the reader from the first chapter and does not let go." Jon Henley, Guardian journalist "A fast paced thrill ride, a book that I couldn't put down and that took me on a journey of fear." Linda Mather, author of Gut Instinct "The depth of the author's research is staggering. His story, and the accompanying sub-plots, are entirely convincing and held my attention from beginning to end. A thriller in every sense of the word." John Leach, Amazon.co.uk Mirror Mirror: When evil and beauty collide Voted the world's most beautiful woman, twenty-three-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, plus top modelling and endorsement deals, Mira's meteoric rise to fame comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life. But celebrity extracts its pound of flesh. Threatened and harassed online, stalked by besotted fans, beaten up by a man who claims to love her, Mira is assailed on all sides. Home isn't safe, friends can't be trusted, freedoms melt away. Where does the image end and the real person begin? As Mira's agent remarks, fame has a habit of devouring its most perfect children. Her managers, eager for the next big deal, fret that she may lose the aura of untouched innocence on which her brand - and their money - is built. They hire Helmand campaign veteran Virgil Bliss as her head of security, a man whose is warned: protect her, but don't fall in love. As the threats multiply, the biggest danger is overlooked. In Broadmoor, Britain's most notorious psychiatric hospital, one man has long been obsessed with this most perfect beauty. His crimes are so awful that a judge ruled they must never been revealed to the public. But his plans to possess Mira are well advanced, and he has the charm and the cunning to make them work. When the psychopath escapes it takes all of Virgil's skill and experience to defend Mira against the multiplying threats. But finally even he is shocked by the ugly secret she has been hiding. 'sparkles with tension. The plot kept me turning the pages from my first encounter with the mysterious prisoner in Broadmoor, to its last twist in windswept Lancashire.' Kate Mitchell, author of The House Fell On Her Head.

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