What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago with the worlds eyes on her Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a witness to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as Scarlet Christmas--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: Shes the editor-in-chief of a major magazine engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry and hell-bent on never ever letting her guard down again. But when a buzzy film made by one of Charlies former classmates threatens to shatter everything shes worked for Charlie realizes how much shes changed in nine years. Now shes not going to let anything--not even the people she once loved most--get in her way.
