Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, C harlie C olbert fled. The press and the police called C harlie a 'witness' to the shocking events at her elite graduate school on C hristmas Eve - events known to the public as 'Scarlet C hristmas' - though C harlie knows she was much more than that.
Now, C harlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: she's the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry and focused on never letting her guard down again. But when a film adaptation made by one of C harlie's former classmates threatens to shatter everything she's worked for, C harlie realises how much she's changed in nine years. Now, she's not going to let anything - not even the people she once loved most - get in her way.