Where is that knight in shining armour when you need him most?
She arrived at Reading University as a bright, promising, wholesome first-year student, and for the first time in her life, every vice was suddenly within her grasp.
Her parents had taught her right from wrong, but her new friends had no respect for older people, or themselves for that matter, and none for the shy, innocent girl they would drag down to their low standards and beyond.
It would be a traumatic journey from success to excess, to despair, self-isolation, and dark thoughts.
Only she could halt the fall into oblivion.
That was the problem.
She couldn’t stop herself.
For salvation, she needed a guardian angel, but the horizon was empty.