It is sudden, shockingly tragic - and nobody's fault. One day Laura Ritchie's husband David tries to cross a busy road, misjudges and is killed, leaving Laura a widow with a seven-year-old son and a stack of debts.
For Mike Mackman - the driver of the car that killed him the remorse is overwhelming. Though fully exonerated of all blame, he has nonetheless robbed a woman of her husband, and a child of his father. Feeling solely responsible for Laura's welfare now, he's desperate to find ways in which he can help her. Laura is touched at first and assures Mike that she and Simon will be perfectly all right. I act she's actually beginning to enjoy rebuilding her life alone: she's got herself a job, made new friends and is finally regaining her long-lost self- confidence.
But that won't do for Mike, who's an old-fashioned sort of guy. Women need protecting even the ones who say that they don't. Mike is now most definitely a man with a mission: to be guardian angel to Laura, who suddenly finds herself under obligations to him that she never wished for. And it's not long before she's a trapped in a sinister spiral of unease and growing fearas the insistent Mike passes the point where the desire to protect becomes the obsessive need to control...
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