Love Like Winter

Alison di Rossi was on her way to spend her summer holidays on the seaside with her grandparents.

It was a long way to get to Italy.

A long, long way...

No one down there in Rome of her friends. She wasn't that much of a talker. She didn't like Rome very much; bad memories with the place.

Her cousin Vicenzo was there, just a few meters away from her house. He was with his friend. His best friend.

And Alie didn't know what was about to happen at all...