In and Out of Step

'Think about the woman you're becoming!' Leonie said, trying to prevent Cassie's flight from home and the problems there. 'You could find yourself out of the frying pan and into the fire.' Her past denied and dance championship dreams discarded, Cassie Sleight leaves home. In the seemingly idyllic coastal town of Keimera, she starts a career on the English staff of the local high school. Exposure to Mark Talbut, a man struggling to be modern yet threatened by power shifts in the workplace and in society, causes Cassie to assess her reactions as a teacher and a woman. As she does so, the secrets of her past surface. Will that past continue to choreograph Cassie's present steps? What sort of woman does she become?   'In and Out of Step' is as much about the world that Cassie Sleight lived in and how the people in it shaped her for good and bad as it is about Cassie's personal journey to belonging. It is a multi-threaded story that looks at how we are influenced by others.