Retaliation is an utterly riveting story of a beautiful woman turned vigilante. It is a taut, relentless, compelling, nerve tingling novel, about a beautiful woman, Sarah Lawson who is constantly abused by her young lover, Julio whom she lives with. Julio, who uses hard drugs, is completely obsessed by her. Sarah, with the help of Julio's father, Juan, finally escapes the violent, mood-changing young man to return to her home-country of England. In due course, she meets a Jamaican doctor, Michael Akaro, who runs a drug Rehabilitation centre in North London and she joins his small team of voluntary helpers. However it does nothing to heal the scars that Julio has left in Sarah's mind and she becomes embittered towards men with drug habits. This novel is a dramatic, fictional thriller, based on the life of a woman who once suffered from mental and physical abuse at the hand of her lover. It is a very topical subject and many women will be able to relate to it if they have suffered these experiences from the partners, male or female in their lives. The story also has a strong romantic theme, as well as suspense running through it. It will grab you and the reader will probably be slightly breathless, probably wondering if the same thing could happen to him or her. It is also charged with eroticism and fear, as the story is woven and the characters unravel. This novel is also a dramatic story which the reader will not want to put the book down.