He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life she was thankful for her friend Kas who was always at the end of a phone ready to listen & to offer comfort & advice. Her father's cold dislike of her & then her parents' divorce had left her with a deep distrust of men. But gradually Kas made her believe there was at least one man who truly cared about her. But she was wrong. At first when Sophie went to stay for a few days with Kas in Italy he was kind & caring as he'd always been. But three days after she arrived everything changed. His eyes were cold as he described the things he expected her to do 'for love'. But soon Sophie's bewilderment turned to fear as he punched & shouted at her & threatened to kill her adored younger brothers if she didn't do exactly as she was told...to sell her body on the streets to pay off Kas's debts. Terrified of Kas the police & the men whose pleasures she was forced to satisfy Sophie worked seven nights a week for the next six months on the dark & lonely streets of a town in northern Italy. Subjected regularly to Kas's verbal mental & physical abuse she knew she would never escape. & then one day after she'd been admitted to hospital with stomach pains
- & knowing that Kas would kill her if he found out
- she dared to phone her mother. But who would reach her first?