Past Regret

A time to remember, or die.

Through the mists of London's waterfront a young woman staggers, unable to remember who she is or how she got here. Across the Atlantic a career housewife boards an airplane, certain that her child is in trouble. For both Delia Swawyer and her daughter, Connie, a college year abroad in London has become a season in hell. Traumatized by a mysterious event, Connie is adrift, making up each step as she goes along, guarding a fat, blood-stained roll of money in her pocket. Delia, having left behind an unfaithful husband, finds an indifferent school administration, a list of similarily missing students, two overly helpful men, and a maze of clues and contradictions. What happened to Connie Sawyer? Determined to find out, delia cannot guess the danger she is courting: that someone close by also wants to find Connie--and make sure that she never remembers a thing....