Sara Tindall seems among the most fortunate of people; she's beautiful, in love, has a baby she adores and her name will soon be in lights above one of London's West End theatres. But in fact, her life is darkened by a terrible shadow, the hatred of someone whose identity remains a mystery; someone who has pursued her, year after year, with lies, rumours and threats, whose inexplicable, corrosive loathing cannot be appeased even by murder. Deep in Sara's subconscious mind lies the key to unlock the mystery.