When she was a child Neve’s father used to make up stories about a magical Balloon House that could fly anywhere its owner wanted it to. She missed him so much when he left her and her mother for a new life in a foreign country. But now that a man is pointing a gun in her direction, the one thing she dreads is hearing the sound of his key in the lock.
Alice and her two friends Jasmine and Phoebe were inseparable. But during a school visit to Cornwall friendship turns to rivalry and they begin to drift apart. Then tragedy strikes and Alice knows life can never be the same.