Surely the most terrifying thing that could happen to any woman must be forher child to be snatched-and indeed it was without doubt the worst thingthat had happened to Marisa; that moment when she came out of a shop to findbaby Jamie vanished would always feel like the end of everything. For mostwomen in that dreadful situation, though it would at least by some comfortto be sustained by their husband's love-but for Marisa it only meant that ithad brought her estranged husband Gabriel back on the scene; the last thingshe had wanted to happen. For nothing had changed in the two years since shehad last seen him; the same gap still yawned between them. Andmeanwhile-where was Jamie.