Mine

A Novel of Obsession

J. L. Butler

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9780062798152
• Print ISBN:
  9780062798145

A divorce lawyer risks her career, her sanity—and possibly her life—when she falls in love with a client: "Engrossing . . . An impeccably paced plot." — Publishers Weekly
Francine Day has methodically built her career doing everything right. She's one big case away from securing her place among London's legal elite. But when she meets a new client, Martin Joy, the natural caution that's protected Francine and fueled her rise melts away. Powerless to fight the magnetism between them, client and counsel tumble into a blistering affair that breaks every rule.
Though Martin insists his marriage is over, Francine doesn't believe him. Certain details don't quite add up. Consumed with a passion she can't control and increasingly obsessed with Martin's relationship with his wife, Donna, Francine follows the woman one night . . . and discovers her having dinner with her supposedly estranged husband.
The next morning, Francine awakens in her neighbor's apartment with blood on her clothes and no recollection of what transpired after she spied the couple together. Then she receives devastating news: Martin's wife has vanished. That dinner was the last place anyone saw Donna alive.
What happened that night and why can't Francine remember? Where is Donna and who is responsible for her disappearance? The further Francine goes to find answers, the tighter the net seems to draw—around her lover, herself, and the life she's meticulously built . . .
"Taut, sinister, clever, with dark and delicious twist coiled in its heart." —S.K. Tremayne, author of The Ice Twins
"A thrilling exploration of obsession, love, professional duty and personal trauma. Few books are worthy of a 4 am finish, Mine is definitely one of them." —Caz Frear, author of Five Bad Deeds

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Prologue
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35
• Chapter 36
• Chapter 37
• Chapter 38
• Chapter 39
• Chapter 40
• Chapter 41
• Chapter 42
• Chapter 43
• Chapter 44
• Chapter 45
• Chapter 46
• Chapter 47
• Chapter 48
• Chapter 49
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher