The best intentions can be deadly

During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one anothers lives to devastating effect.

When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.

Born in England,Lawrence Osborneis the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark andBeautiful Animals.His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, includingBangkok Days,Paris DreambookandThe Wet and the Dry.His short story 'Volcano' was selected forBest American Short Stories 2012,and he has writtenfor theNew York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler,theNew Yorker, Forbes, Harpersand other publications. He lives in Bangkok.