YOUTH

It was him − seductive, charming, gorgeous him. How could anybody refuse? He took advantage of my immaturity, of my first love.

I remember it all. I had been scared. Scared because it was my first romance, my first time of experiencing ecstasy.

There's something in me that rebels, says I was old enough to understand but I wasn't. He knew I wasn't but still he continued to pursue me as if wanting a taste of something he knew he wasn't allowed.

I remember that dark curious part of me that wanted to know more. I wanted to learn more about that erotic feeling in me that bloomed by his touch.

Yes, I could have stopped him, told someone, pushed him away but I didn't, because I wanted to know what a man felt like. What he felt like...

Zoona is a sweet twelve-year-old girl, curious about the world, appearing mature in her family, but she is also unfamiliar and innocent to the ways of the world. The youngest of four siblings, she is loved and adored, but that's the only kind of love she knows: family love.

It all changes when she meets Damien West, a seductive gorgeous business man, and the brother of Zoona's sister's boyfriend who comes to stay for Christmas. Immediately she is drawn to him, fascinated by his charm and his intent interest in her as he tantalizes her sensations.

As she feels herself falling hopelessly in love with a man many years older than, she is led into a dark world of passionate, unfamiliar desires and a world she only thought existed in books.