Publisher's Synopsis
Hearing Isabella Velasco's name on her answermachine makes Innes Haldane's blood run cold. It's a name from her past - a past she has tried hard to forget. For in 1977, a fifteen-year-old Innes spent a year in Edinburgh at the Unit, an experimental home for highly intelligent but dysfunctional teenagers. There her fellow patients had included shy Simon Calder, aggressive Alex Baxendale, rapist Danny Rintoul and the beautiful Isabella Velasco. Now, nearly three decades later, Isabella is trying to make contact again. But Innes never finds out why. For only days later she reads a newspaper account of Isabella's suicide. Innes's shock quickly turns to fear when she hears that Danny, too, recently committed suicide. Has some dark event, buried deep in 1977, come back to haunt them all?
