Addie Downs & Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. At least thats what nine-year-old Addie believes when Val moves into the house across the street. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years Val is swept into the popular crowd while mousy sullen Addie becomes her schools scapegoat. Fifteen years on Val has found a measure of fame & fortune as the local weathergirl. Addie meanwhile lives alone in her parents house looking after her troubled brother & trying to meet Prince Charming on the internet. Shes just returned from Bad Date No. 6 when she hears a knock at her door. There on the step is her long-gone best friend blood on the sleeve of her coat. Something terrible has happened Val tells Addie. Can you help me?