Late one Saturday night Aaron Tyler has a choice to make, the noise coming from his front door is unusual - nobody has knocked at Sotherby House for nearly 20 years.

A recluse for almost half his life, the idea of someone at his door both terrifies and excites him.

Denying his natural instinct he decides to open it. What he finds is a barely conscious, beaten and bloodied girl. From that moment on his world is about to become complicated in ways he could not have imagined.
Many questions need answering.

How did 15yr old Sophie Thomas end up on the doorstep of Sotherby...

Anthony Allen Adopted at birth, given to a family that never really wanted him, A family that kept reminding him that he was not theirs, they thrived on telling him that his birth mother didn't want him. That without them he would have no-one. For eighteen years he has wanted to know where he came from. Nicola Anderson At sixteen she made the hardest decision of her life. A decision she has ignored for eighteen years. After giving up her most precious creation and losing all of those around her, she started a new life on her own. A secret she has kept for...