Chelsea wanted to stand out from the crowd - be different. She finally did it. It's a shame somebody had to die in the process....
Chelsea Rules is the story of eighteen year old Chelsea Royle, a girl who stabs and kills her best friend. It's a shocking crime because it seems that Chelsea is a normal girl from a good home with no reason to do such a thing. For her crime, Chelsea is detained within a high secure hospital.
So why, with so much promise, does Chelsea throw it all away with one awful act of violence? It's true that Chelsea is a goth with a penchant for all things dark and gloomy. But that doesn't adds up to murder. And she hasn’t had a bad life. So why take a knife and stab her beloved friend twenty three times?
Eventually we see that Chelsea's life has not been the normal existence it first appears to be. She is a girl from a disturbed family with dysfunctional dynamics, well hidden by the fact that her parents are middle class professionals with money, good jobs and a very nice house. There is a hidden madness running through her family that impacts on her more than she realises. She is a sad and very lonely girl who nobody can understand until its way too late...