The Tightrope

Fate. Or Choice.

Are they separate or can you make choices within a fated life? Can these choices change a path that already exists?

Eleven-year-old orphan Alex Cupar has never had anything worth losing. This is what makes her so unpredictable. Everything could go up in flames and Alex wouldn’t care. In fact, she feels it’s exactly what’s meant to happen. What Annette Coulter, a child psychologist, believes is depressive thinking about her future, Alex explains as ‘it’ leading her down a fated path. But Annette herself is just returning from an unplanned sabbatical and is not herself. When Alex’s belief starts to cloud her own judgement and her mission to help the girl quickly morphs into a domino of disasters, everything that had once been obediently accepted is called into question.