'I know where you've been'. She flung her head back and called to her parents through the ceiling. 'You've been to White Wood. You shouldn't go there. Don't go back. There's something wrong with that place. Don't go there!'
Heather Thomas is fifteen and has a guilty secret that haunts her. She shuns friendships, believing they will evoke unwanted memories and hinder her ability to escape from the past. She seeks free will and develops a way of life to eliminate interaction and ensure that she can determine her own choices.
Her family have moved to a small town in central England to start a new life. However the peace she finds there in White Wood is shattered and she is swept up by events that change everything.