Life is hard for Belinda Fellgate: fourteen, inept at everything and struggling. Not only is she trying to keep up with her lessons, she endures bullying every day from her school mates and abuse every night at the hands of her alcoholic stepmother. That is until one fateful day when a catastrophic fire destroys a house and its lone occupant on the small avenue where she lives.

But it isn’t long before Belinda discovers that it was no ordinary fire. It was no ordinary woman that died. And Belinda - the girl with the emerald eyes - is no ordinary girl…