Eve is determined her life will not be ordinary. Leaving behind a bleak childhood for the promise of Newcastle University, she is immediately drawn to a clique of glamorous and intoxicating students. Bound by a passion for the Romantic poets, the group delight in pushing life to its extremes. This is the world Eve longs for: one filled with beauty, decadent parties and unimaginable wealth. But by the end of the year the group are trapped by a terrible secret. Now in their thirties, reunited for a wedding, their lives appear as enviable as ever. But someone is determined that there will be a reckoning for the past - and before long, new secrets emerge, lethal and uncontainable.