When Lila Cole's twin brother, Billy, points a rifle from a hotel window and commits 'suicide by police', a multitude of painful questions comes to the fore. She discovers that her once brilliant but troubled twin - the person she was closer to than anyone in the world - was not only estranged from his wife, but charged<br/>with endangering the life of his son. As Lila struggles to learn what the truth was in her brother's complicated past, her job, marriage and sanity<br/>are put to the test. And when the hidden meaning behind Billy's stories come to light, she will have to act<br/>before Billy's children are destroyed by the same heartbreaking reality that shattered her protector and twin more than twenty years ago. The Promised World is a mesmerising tale of intimacy, betrayal and lost innocence that will haunt readers long after they have turned the final page.