An attack by an unknown assailant leaves Kim Lystrander at the mercy of her fear. As Kim re-imagines in writing the hours and days leading up the assault, her father, Harold begins to unravel. Michael Helm, the Giller Prize shortlisted author of THE PROJECTIONIST and IN THE PLACE OF LAST THINGS offers a compelling and complex human drama, where mysteries live within mysteries, stories within stories. Tough, urban and thought-provoking, a novel with all the overtones of a literary thriller.