Staring at the Light (Sarah Fortune #3) by Frances Fyfield

staring at the light

Why should a man want to destroy his brother's wife?

For John Smith, a man with a corrupted conscience, the motive is simple. Someone has stolen the only person he has ever loved or was ever capable of loving: his twin brother, Cannon. Without him, life has no meaning, and Johnny will stop at nothing to be his brother's keeper. But Cannon does not want his brother any more. He's married now and his wife both loves and needs him. He and Johnny may once have been disfigured orphans in a storm, but he's changed that too, with the help of a good dentist. Johnny is afraid of the dentist.

Cannon, sometime bombmaker and gifted artist, goes into hiding rather than risk Johnny's destructive brotherly love. Sarah Fortune, an unusual lawyer who has made helping the needy and eccentric into her own kind of art form, shields Cannon and, more importantly, his wife, the real target, the one who deserves the worst kind of pain Johnny can inflict. But is Cannon really telling the truth about Johnny? Sarah cannot quite believe anyone is incapable of redemption. Failure to believe in evil could make her vulnerable.