Hope Against Hope Author:Susan B. Kelly Nick saw Alison Hope often that summer. Whenever he closes his eyes he can conjure her. Sometimes she appears triumphant and self-assured as on the night of her house-warming party-the night Aidan was murdered. Or tired, sad-eyed and frightened as she was the next day, and the next. Now defiant as she looks him in the eye and dares him to ca... more »ll her a liar; now death-mask pale as on the night of the arrest. But, strangely, he sees her most often as she was that day on the road. She is wearing jeans, cashmere sweater, sheepskin jacket and a cross look. But it may misleas. For when Nick first met Alison, he did not think much of her...« less