THEY SAW, THEY CHOSE, THEY GROOMED. THEN, AFTER HER 16th BIRTHDAY, THEY TOOK HER VIRGINITY. What lies behind the curtain tells a story of an impressionable young teenager who stepped into the modelling world with dreams of the high life and a successful career. However, all of that came crashing down as the author was lured into a house of deceit and lies. Slowly she was stripped of her identity, leaving her questioning who she is, and carefully manipulated into exactly what her employers want her to become: someone to abuse. Read how the most evil and cunning paedophile ever to come before a Manchester court in the 1990s coerced her, and how she finally saw through the veil of dishonesty and helped to convict him. The author takes you on a journey from an innocent childhood to someone who has to grow up fast, experiencing things that no youth should have to encounter. The experience led her to lose her ability to speak out, which scared her. She thought that, by closing the door on this chapter of her life, all could be forgotten and she could get on with her life. However, to truly move on, she had to face her demons, and learn to accept and understand the grooming world she was tangled up in. With the help of therapy many years later, she set herself free from an inner prison of guilt and shame, and - finally - was able to talk and heal the wounds of her past.