Life didn’t deal an easy hand to Toni Locke growing up. An absent father, an angry, violent, alcoholic mother and a suicidal brother. She spends her time keeping under her mother’s radar and desperately trying to ignore the things she hears and sees, as her life hangs under the swinging axe of mental illness.
Toni clings to her small group of friends to keep her sane, to show her how to love and laugh. They grow and learn together until one night in their late teens, walking home from the bar, one choice changes everything.
20 years later and Toni is back in the home town she ran so far and hard from. There are prices to finally be paid. Shadows of the past that need confronting. Too late, Toni learns her ghosts are not just metaphorical and she is on a race against time, herself and a deadly serial killer who’s a lot closer to home than anyone expects. But will she come to terms with what she has spent a lifetime ignoring in time to save her friend from the things that hide in the shadows?
