Before You Knew Me

From the CIBA Chatelaine Grand Prize winning author of The Art of Enchantment —

Sharon Beckett was fifteen when her father's corruption destroyed everything — their family's reputation, her social world, her sense of safety. She rebuilt herself from nothing, brick by careful brick, and swore she would never be that exposed again.

As a Vancouver attorney, she's learned one lesson that overrides everything else — stay on the safe side of every line. No controversy. No visibility. No risk. She is exactly where she needs to be, and she will not jeopardize it.

Then she's assigned pro bono to Kent Sawyer's case, and everything she's built starts to feel less stable than she thought.

Kent is passionate, relentless, and infuriating — a social worker fighting to open a shelter for street kids in a city where corrupt officials and greedy developers have other plans. He doesn't need a reluctant, buttoned-up attorney who treats his life's work as a box to tick. He needs someone who actually cares.

Sharon tells herself she doesn't. She almost believes it.

When secrets from her own past surface and the case takes a dangerous turn, Sharon has to decide who she's really been protecting all these years — and whether the wall she built was ever really keeping her safe.

A story about the lives we construct to survive, and the people who make us question whether we still need them.

Before You Knew Me is a full length stand alone novel and can be read independently of other books in the Having It All series.