Skinner's mother Megan is hiding in plain sight. She has a job at the 24 hour breakfast café at the motorway services. The café is no-one's destination, just an en route stop-off for strangers on the journey to somewhere else, and nobody local would ever dream of going there. She lives in the twilight of the careful shroud of anonymity she has drawn around herself, prevented by her traumatic past from embracing the future, and desperately missing the son she left behind. Then Megan finds herself embroiled in the search for the little boy lost in the raging river. The front page story tears Megan's veil away, and forces her to confront her ghosts; not only the son she has abandoned, but the husband she is so desperate to evade