Promises to Keep (by Alexandra Raife)

I very much liked Alexandra Raife’s novels the first time I read them, in the first few years of the century. She wrote twelve in all, and I acquired some of them soon after they were available in paperback. I have been re-reading them over the past couple of years, and have reached the final one again, ‘Promises to Keep’. I last read it in 2005 and had totally forgotten what it was about.

The story is mainly about a young woman called Miranda. We see her first in a prologue at the airport,...