Dancing Shadows

Shadows are like thoughts. They drift and glide, twist and shatter, they jump and dance. They can paint a picture just as adeptly as colour.

They also hover and obscure; cover a face, darken a doorway. They smother the light, dim the details, conceal the truth....

All her life, eleven-year-old Gretchen Lake has been classed as hopeless; weak, sick, delicate, frail, fragile. She has hardly ever seen anything other than the stuffy insides if an Amsterdam terrace, until she is forced to leave all she knows and hide in the mountains. There she may at least be safe from the enemies inherited from her Mother, but are the shadows as empty as they seem?