A bonfire burns on a Cornish beach in the middle of the night. Nearby a young woman waits for morning and the estate agent to arrive with the keys to her new life in the peaceful fishing village. She carries with her no trace of her history or her previous life or the past she has left behind. Quickly she becomes an object of fascination among the locals, one in particular finds that he is falling in love with her. But can anyone really have a new life? What happened to this woman's old life? And what price did she pay to escape it? When secrets long buried explode into light, they will change the lives of everyone around her. A gripping psychological thriller of shifting perceptions, Who She Was dances on the thin line between truth and lies, good and evil, where it is never revealed who is the victim and who the murderous perpetrator until the very last line of the very last page.