When Alistair Black gets a part in a hit TV series, everyone says it will change his life. Having spent most of his teenage years hiding in his bedroom, surely things can only change for the better? But Alistair's so-called opportunity leads to a dark and terrifying event, which threatens to ruin his own life, and the life of Alice Zealand, the girl he has befriended and secretly loves. Twenty years on, Alice and Alistair are still struggling to live with that happened that terrible night. And fate hasn't quite finished with either of them.