Train of Thoughts

A game of kiss chase is where it had all begun. Peter Helm had chased Shirley Bates in the school playground and planted a sloppy kiss on her lips. She had been smitten, and just knew from that moment on that she would love him forever, even though they were both only eight years old.
Nearly three decades later that thin line between love and hate has been tested many times. The last straw for Shirley comes after Pete loses his job and gets tangled up with Tommy, a low-life drug dealer. Another side of Pete is revealed, one that takes control over her relentlessly driving away friends and the one family member she has, her sister Steph. The monster within has taken over her once loving husband and left only the shell for her to contend with.
When Pete is arrested and charged with dealing drugs, he is sent down for four months which leaves her at the mercy of his associate Tommy. After a horrifying ordeal with Tommy, Shirley at her lowest point attempts to take her own life, but is saved. Pete is paroled early and her life spirals into a new found darkness.
She realises that their love is gone, dead and buried. So to save her own sanity she makes the bravest decision she has ever made, to cut the umbilical cord that has held her and Pete together for nearly three decades, and fly solo. She secretly plans her escape to Scotland and the one person she hopes still cares for her, Steph her sister.
The decision comes at a price for Shirley, and the train journey away from her miserable life is set to reveal many things which will make past events clear beyond any reasonable doubt.