Publisher's Synopsis
In 1975, Vietnamese orphan Cathy Carter arrives in England to begin a new life. Tragically, her idyllic childhood in the New Forest ends when she is fifteen. A fire kills her parents but her adoptive twin sisters - ten years older, strange and uncommunicative - rescue themselves and Cathy. As the twins become more absorbed in themselves and in witchcraft, Cathy joins a theatre group. There she meets Nico, the charismatic forty-year-old director, with whom she is instantly besotted. Nico is attracted to the nubile, pretty young girl - and when he discovers she is going to inherit a fortune, nothing will stop him having her...