Serenity

After months of grieving, a glimmer of hope finally returns for Josephine when she accepts an invitation to celebrate Christmas in Sydney. There, shell meets the family people shed invited to come and stay with her in the Netherlands and an instant bond is formed.
Excitement over their arrival soon turns into apprehension and second thoughts as she watches her quiet family home transformed with security camaras and alarms. Despite all of that, Josephine and her new house guests soon settle into a happy, comfortable family-like house.
Then, a panic button is pushed, and de dominoes of family, comfort and normality all begin to teeter, close to toppling and echoes from the past rise up.
But, fears are soon allayed and life again moves on.
That is… until a message arrives that changes everything. Once more the family seems forever cursed by its past; a curse that infects anyone who grows close to them.
Serenity is the thrilling second installment in the series. A gripping psychological novel with a razor-sharp thriller edge, in which the characters from the Manhunt series feel the ground cut out from under their feet.