Katherine and Craig Fraser had shared ten golden years together. And they were still very much in love. Then one day Craig vanished leaving Katherine with two children, no job, no money - and the discovery that her husband has been living a double life. Severing all ties with the past, Katherine and her children flee to San Francisco. There she meets the affluent Hayward family - the family from which Craig fled fifteen years before. Swept into the heady world of San Francisco society Katherine forges a new life, richer and more meaningful than anything she had with Craig. Until she realises it's not the future which threatens her happiness, but the past and its claim on the most valuable possessions of all...

'This consistently interesting novel should find as many satisfied readers as did DECEPTIONS... POSSESSIONS is a believable modern odyssey, a woman's search for identity unburdened by melodrama or undue gimmickry' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

Judith Barnard and Michael Fain, a husband and wife writing team, live in Chicago and Aspen, Colorado. All their novels have been bestsellers, both in Britain and America.