Lucy Potter is a successful artist but she has done no new work in months. She fears she has lost the creative spark that sustained her and enabled her to express her view of the world. Will she ever regain it?

Lucy Potter is a successful artist but she has done nonew work in months. She fears she has lost the creative spark that sustainedher and enabled her to express her view of the world. Will she ever regain it?

The chance discovery of an old notebook while on awalk in the woods provides a welcome distraction, raising questions she cannotanswer. Who wrote it, why is it in code, what secrets does it hide? And whydoes it include the address of a house that does not exist?

Partial decoding of the notebook, surely written manyyears ago, reveals troubling incidents in the life of an unnamed girl. Deeplyaffected by the girl's plight, Lucy feels impelled to find out who she is orwas and what happened to her. Could she still be alive?

Lucy's search for answers has an outcome she couldnever have anticipated. But will the re-appearance in Lucy's life of fellowartist Rex Monday help or hinder her attempts to re-establish her position inthe art world - and provide the stability she needs in her personal life?

As the story unfolds, we are drawn into the world asseen through Lucy's eyes. A world of colour and light, of shape and pattern andtexture, inviting us to see it that way too.