Sleepless

When she was still a child, Nadja Kulka was convicted of a terrible crime. Years later, finally released from prison, she has started over and is mostly content with her simple life: a decent job, a small apartment, and one real friend. Laura. Lately Laura has been distant, but suddenly she shows up at Nadja's office, shaking and pale. Laura tells Nadja she has killed someone. She's afraid to tell her volatile husband, and she needs help hiding the evidence. Nadja can't refuse her only friend. The two women make for a remote house in the woods, the perfect place to bury a body. But their plan quickly falls aparts, and Nadja is trapped, a pawn in a bizarre game in which her troubled past could be her salvation . . . or her downfall. -- Back cover.