This is a novel about a woman's struggle with TIK and love. Bolandville does not exist. It is an invention of my imagination. All the characters in this novel are also created by me and are entirely fictitious. However, the Boland area of South Africa is real and the drug menace portrayed is sadly very real. The beautiful Drakenstein Mountains are also real and stand like guardians, brooding helplessly over the area where drug taking is a horrible reality. Although heroin is the more addictive and gives a bigger hit, TIK is the more destructive and being cheaper has become the drug of choice. It is estimated that one in every ten people in the Western Cape are TIK addicts. Editor Johnie Johnson