Gemma Stirling is an attractive and talented young woman, working as
a designer for a famous fashion house. On the surface, she has the
world at her feet. However, when she was twelve, Gemma was attacked
and sexually abused on her way from school. Since then, Gemma has
been wary of relationships with men and has kept her attack secret
from everyone but her closest friends, Jane and Sarah. When she
meets Mark Winters, Gemma's fear of intimacy is overcome by her
desire to get closer to Mark, but Mark is hiding a secret of his
own.