Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It\u2019s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you.<\/p>\n
As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all\u2014including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who quickly develops an intense infatuation with this thoroughly charming yet unavailable man. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tom\u2019s teenaged son Freddie\u2014a prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5\u2014excels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.<\/p>\n
One of Tom\u2019s students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and she\u2019s not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems. For one thing, he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate, and Jenna\u2019s mother\u2014whose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent years\u2014is convinced that Mr. Fitzwilliam is stalking her.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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