A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation.

Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. But when she falls for the beautiful, enigmatic Caden, her need to get under his skin, to truly know him becomes overpowering.

Anna’s new life in Cambridge is full of promise - she’s the top student in her PhD cohort, she has great friends and she has met an exhaustingly attractive man - but something is a little off. Perhaps it’s the routine violence of her lab work with animals, or maybe it’s something to do with her boyfriend’s icy reserve, but it seems there is a kind of menace hiding beneath the Cambridge dream.

When Anna and Caden’s lives become tightly entangled, her obsession with Caden’s seemingly ever-present ex-girlfriend reaches a dangerous pitch… Just how far will she go to satiate her curiosity?

‘A gloriously tense tale of obsession…At times the reader feels like Setton’s plaything, but she does it so well we don’t really mind’  - Financial Times 

‘Setton offers a slow drip-feed of apprehension and unease the novel swells a satisfying - and pleasingly unpredictable- climax ‘ - Daily Mail 

‘The surprises work, a twist towards the end left me uttering an expletive aloud, and the final page made me shudder. Animal loves, however, be warned. It’s not just the Mice who Suffer’ - John Boyne, The Irish Times