You should never pick up hitch-hikers, her father had told her, but the storm was so wild, the night so dark and the hour so late, that Keri stopped at the side of the empty dual carriageway and took on board a whole load of worry, grief and trouble. The Easter break in Cornwall with her friend Gillian, that should have been so relaxing and ordinary, changed from that moment, and her quiet, rather dull and respectable life was to glow with colour and ring with music and laughter over the next few days in spite of disturbing undertones - for things were not at all what they seemed. And after all the excitement there came the reckoning, and Keri had to come to terms with a bitter lesson; always listen to your dad, because he's often right... This is a book about relationships, about understanding, and about knowing your own strengths and recognising not just your own weaknesses but other people's too, but much more than that, about courage.