Dawn arrives in New York to study singing at the Bernhard School of Performing Arts - fulfilling her most treasured dream. However, escape from her unhappy past is not so simple: when the students house supervisor, encouraged by the vindictive Grandmmother Cutler, makes her life a misery, dawn turns to her tutor, Michael, who seduces her - then disappears. Once again dawn finds herself in the power of Grandmother Cutler, a virtual slave and prisoner of the nightmare world she thought she had left behind forever. The Cutler family saga - Dawn, Secrets of the morning, Twilights child, Midnight whispers, Darkest hour,