The Embrace (Paperback)

When Jessica Goodwin is asked by her dying mother to read her diaries to her, Jessica duly obliges and is slowly drawn in to a world of anguish, betrayal, the supernatural and redemption. She dismisses her mother's writings as fiction until the truth becomes undeniable and the conclusion inevitable. Evelyn Goodwin is dying. Her daughter Jessica Goodwin is sleeping beside her mother's bed and wakes up in time to see a young woman standing over her mother's bed before quickly disappearing. From her poverty stricken College Years in 1971 to being the owner of an international Law Firm in 1999, Evelyn through her diaries tells her extraordinary life story which began when she met Talia Holmes, a strange French girl who showed up at her apartment door on a winter's night offering to rent the apartment with Evelyn. With her endless supply of money and distaste for conventional thinking Talia and Evelyn are at odds from the start before Evelyn slips into a thick blanket of depression and is saved from suicide by Talia. Becoming more and more curious about her roommate Talia reveals that she is a vampire and a relationship develops between them before a devastating terrorist attack leaves Evelyn critical in hospital and as Talia is forced to run and leave Evelyn to fend for herself. The Embrace brings a dying mother and her daughter together for the final time as Jessica reads Evelyn entries from Evelyn's diaries as secrets, betrayal and love are laid bare against a background of poverty, illness and terrorism.