
One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school & straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts across the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing & the perpetrator is not caught. Her fourteen-year-old neighbour has loved Lindy from afar since they were kids. He begins investigating neighbourhood `suspects`, determined to solve the crime. But before the long, hot summer is out he will learn that the white picket fences of his hometown conceal a tangled web of darkness.