'Why do you get such pleasure from observing the pain you cause me?'

Almost crushed by an abusive ex and another narcissistic relationship, Isobel is terrified to find herself falling in love again. With a man she's not supposed to. How can she trust her romantic choices, after the previous horrors? As she carefully delves into relationship, the trauma of the past is waiting to engulf her once more.

Her beloved son, Dylan, has a near fatal accident and Isobel fights parental alienation from his father, while Cynthia, her narcissist mother, invents even more outrageous stories to discredit her daughter and steal the Golden Child.
And now Dylan battles his own fallout from narcissistic abuse.  How far will Isobel go to recover her child and will she ever be able to trust to love once more?