Teenager Sally’s life is in danger from the minute she finds the injured Russian hiding in a ditch and tries to help him. He later disappears but suspecting he may have been tortured, she sets out to track him down, aided by Sher, an attractive young American she has met on a prop hunt for the theatre and who seems to know a lot about Russia. But the criminals have found her and she is kidnapped and imprisoned along with the American.  

Using her knowledge of theatre she escapes but is recaptured and taken to a desolate spot in the Highlands of Scotland where the only exit is via a vertiginous climb over the mountain, the Dragon’s Tooth.. Now Sally has to work out who she can trust. Is it Hugo Deloitte, the charismatic director who has offered her the once in a lifetime chance of work experience at his theatre? Kellaway, the odd job man who took the injured man to hospital in his van? Or the businessman who is funding the theatre? What have all these people to do with the Russian Mafia? 

And, more importantly, will she see the American again?