First Fruits

Kate Carr is a lucky teenager. Although her mother has left, she is far from neglected at home. The girls at school envy her because her father is such a charmer, the most mesmerising minister in Edinburgh. The clever new girl Lydia envies her most of all. Sometimes Kate wonders what it would be like to have a mother like Lydia's, or even a doting grandmother like stupid Moira's, but she knows what she has is better. She is special; she is Keith Carr's 'first fruit', his offering. He is training her up in his image, to have It - his special power, the ability to manipulate people. She practices what he's taught her with devastating effect. Soon both Kate and the reader will find themselves drawn into a complex web of religion, seduction, memory, and desire that will move them inexorably into the past.