Elliot, a 25-year-old British boy, discovers that he has a secret half-brother, Fyodor in Saint Petersburg. Elliot travels to the city, meets his brother and falls in love with Anya, Fyodor's girlfriend.
Cary is being followed, she does not see her stalker but he is there in every shadow and every reflection. Once she is home, feeling safe she goes to bed with her boyfriend but in the darkness hides a killer. Watching he waits for his desire to be fulfilled.
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.