The Schemer

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Stephanie Crouch is desperate. She longs to escape the run-down, pokey Essex council house she shares with her family. So when she meets East End wide-boy Barry, his cockney charm soon has her head over heels in love. Then they are tragically torn apart by their families.

Tainted love

Lonely and heartbroken, Stephanie turns to Barry’s childhood friend Wayne for comfort. But stealing your mate’s girlfriend is crossing a line, and Barry is set on revenge

Pay back

Ten years later and Barry is back in Essex … Immediately Stephanie’s happy world is turned upside down. Is her ex-love the one to blame? Or, should Stephanie look elsewhere to find the schemer who has ruined her life?