<p>Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister Casey in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence unknown even to the author are about to be revealed.</p><p>Six years earlier life was much simpler for everyone involved especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source -- a scholarship to an elite private school is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans.</p><p>Then tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read -- <em>Sleeping Beauty</em>.</p>
