This is also the time to thank my friends. I really do go to ground when I’m writing these books. I say ‘no’ to most things, don’t call, forget to reply to texts. I’m well and truly off the grid, the world’s worst friend, and it is always such a relief that they allow me to just pick up where we left off, without recrimination, when I re-enter the real world.

Finally, above all and always, my family. They are my beating heart and although I spend my days creating new worlds, nothing would exist for me without them. They are my beginning, my middle and my end. The end.

The Secret Path

Every step leads me back to you.

Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan returns with The Secret Path, taking us deep into the heart of the Costa Rican jungle . . .

At just twenty years old, Tara Tremain has everything: she’s a trainee doctor, engaged to the man of her dreams – a passionate American biology student called Alex Carter. But just when life seems perfect, Alex betrays her in the worst way possible.

Ten years later, she’s moved on – with a successful career, good friends and a man who loves her. But when she’s pulled back into her wealthy family’s orbit for an unmissable party in the heart of Costa Rica, she finds herself flung into crisis: a child is desperately ill and the only remedy is several days’ trek away, in the heart of the jungle.

There’s only one person who can help – but it’s the man who shattered her heart a decade before. And how can she trust him, of all people?

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Karen Swan is the Sunday Times top three bestselling author of seventeen books and her novels sell all over the world. She writes two books each year – one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Previous winter titles include Christmas at Tiffany’s, The Christmas Lights, The Christmas Party and for summer, The Rome Affair, The Greek Escape and The Spanish Promise.

Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisty plots, sometimes telling two stories in the same book.

Previously a fashion editor, she lives in Sussex with her husband, three children and two dogs.

Visit Karen’s author page on Facebook, follow her on Twitter @KarenSwan1, on Instagram @swannywrites, and her website www.karenswan.com.

Also by Karen Swan

Players

Prima Donna

Christmas at Tiffany’s

The Perfect Present

Christmas at Claridge’s

The Summer Without You

Christmas in the Snow

Summer at Tiffany’s

Christmas on Primrose Hill

The Paris Secret

Christmas Under the Stars

The Rome Affair

The Christmas Secret

The Greek Escape

The Christmas Lights

The Spanish Promise

The Christmas Party