He was handsome, charming, irresistible, and an 18-year old lady-killer, her uncle Cliff's stepson, Ted. But in one terrible afternoon he would shatter the life of 14-year old Charlotte and nearly destroy her family. Years afterward, Charlotte would remember that day with fear and loathing, with pain that couild be banished only by her work as a gifted architect, building a new world for others as she conceals her own.