An evil man dies in agony . . . a small boy watches his mother killed by a car . . . and a bunch of students spook themselves silly in a City basement. Three random events - one justified, one tragic, one plain irresponsible. But all with terrible consequences. And when Frannie Monsanto meets Oliver Halkin and falls in love, she little realises that she is putting the final piece into a jigsaw of horrors that she may not survive.