Vena Cork's chilling new novel explores the murderous consequences of the green-eyed monster - jealousy - and how a beautiful and enigmatic girl causes chaos...Rosa Thorn is in Cambridge filming for the BBC, but there is tension in Billings College where she is staying. Bizarre and frightening things are happening every day. Are these events connected to the person who has been attacking and raping young women in Cambridge for several years? Rosa's son Danny is a student at the College. He is infatuated with a talented and mysterious undergraduate called Stella. She has an uncanny ability to captivate most men who come into her orbit and stir up dangerous and unpredictable currents. Then a body is found on the night of Billings College May Ball and what follows is an incredible and shocking series of episodes that will change some lives and destroy others and reveal the dark heart beneath the genteel facade of prosperous middle England...