A young girl's life lies in a delicate balance between parents who shun her wanting little or nothing to do with her, a rigid and demanding grandfather who considers her more his property than a person, grooming her for his own wants, and an unknown assailant waiting in the shadows to destroy her. Her only hope is a bodyguard and a girl with short, shaggy, blonde hair, but is the girl a figment of her imagination or the ghost of her late aunt. How many times can she cheat death? The book follows the life of Sydney who barely survives a horrific kidnapping at age six. Plagued by nightmares and constant threats on her life, she has to look at life differently to survive while fitting into her grandfather's mold of what is proper for a girl of her wealth and position.