How one seventeen year-old turns a summer ice-cold
‘Her parents are dead and we’re all so sorry for her - but to Julia, Julia herself, it doesn’t matter . . . she just doesn’t care.’
From the moment cousin Julia arrives, she seems to seep into Rachel’s Bryant’s life like poison. Julia enchants everyone, Rachel’s parents, her brothers, all her friends and even her own boyfriend, but no one seems to notice Julia’s fixating stare and her strange behaviour, no one except Rachel’s pet dog, Trickle.
But who is Julia and what does she really want with the Bryant’s? Soon Rachel’s questions are answered and she realises why it has been a summer of fear.