Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. Someone is ready to strike.

Twelve-year-old Lesley Smith has spent her life obeying rules she never understood - sudden relocations, locked rooms, and a father who sees danger in every shadow. When John Smith's paranoia finally explodes into violence, Lesley and her friends barely escape with their lives. Placed in the care of Constable Fiona Benson, Lesley begins to unravel the truth about her stolen childhood. Through Lesley's eyes the reader discovers hints of a foreign criminal syndicate, and a political motive to kill. But the more Lesley is pursued, the more she and her friends struggle with nightmares, panic, and Lesley's creeping sense that the past is not finished with her.