Sweet dreams are made of this - Margaret Burt

Helena, a bright, vivacious eighteen-year-old, is poised on the brink of the rest of her life. Living with her uncle Mark, she feels her life is going nowhere. Encouraged by the letters her father wrote before he died, Helena begins to discover love, life and lust. Twirling in the spotlight of first love, sex and ambition, Helena blossoms. Dominic, a twenty-one-year old law student at Edinburgh University is the object of her attention.

She, on the other hand, is the object of a much more sinister gaze. Adam is also maturing, but along a very different route. Firmly committed to hardening himself against all evils and inflicting his pain on others, he becomes obsessed with Helena, and with Dominic - with horrifying implications. The three lives move with a dizzying momentum towards one fateful collision which shatters the worlds they have constructed for themselves.