Author:Rose, Jacqui. All Ava ever wanted was to be a good wife. The wife that she knows her cop husband, Tony, deserves. Fuelled by the emptiness left by her absent mother, who walked out when Ava was just a baby, she is on a path to self-destruction: drinking too much, making bad choices - including lying to her husband about her whereabouts - and numbing her pain with one-night stands.