The Truth About Sonia Pratt (On Hold)

I sit here thinking,
What a mess I’ve become,
Haunting memories,
Of the bad things I’ve done,
Punishing myself,
When things go wrong,
I’m fed up of feeling;
That I don’t belong.

Whatever I do,
It never seems to go right,
So I stay up worrying,
Late every night,
I bottle up my problems,
Hope they might go away,
But sadly they return,
Every single day.
-Excerpt from "Hiding The Truth", by Gemma Nolan.

Sonia Pratt is a single mother with only one goal in life: Never stop running. Ever since The Night (as she has come to call it so as to avoid ever addressing the problem), she has strived zealously after that goal, and succeeded. She and her son never stay in a town for more than a month, and with each town, she leaves behind a mystery; the mystery that is her life.
After moving into Silver Pines, California, Sonia assumes that it will be like any other home she has ever lived in. Unpack, find some work, quit after three weeks, pack, and move again. But when Matthias Barton, another single parent of a feisty and charismatic little girl, decides to invest in her, she finds that leaving is harder than she wanted it to be. Yet, even as Matthias shows every ounce of kindness that he has to her, she pushes him away and hides behind the mask that her years of running has created. Little does he know, with every day that passes, she is haunted and pursued by her dark past; a past that will never leave her alone. Ever.