Soon to be eighteen, Rhiannon Reece lives with her grandparents. Her mother was killed when she was just one, and her father, unable to cope with events, fled to Australia, never to be seen or heard of again.

One morning, Rhiannon sets off for school, but she doesn’t arrive, and worse still, in the evening she doesn’t come home.

Her grandparents are distraught. Where is Rhiannon? She did not attend school, and she’s not with her friends or boyfriend.