A whispered family legend. A childhood overheard conversation. A secret buried for decades.

Since childhood, Gabrielle Creighton has been haunted by an unsettling question: was a crime committed against her grandmother—or was it just the invention of a child's imagination? Now, nearing the end of her life, she refuses to leave the mystery unsolved.

Enter Sophie Sinclair, a sharp-minded investigator tasked with uncovering the truth. As Sophie peels back the layers of the Creighton family's past, she finds far more than answers. Dark secrets emerge. Sophie realises that revealing what she has discovered could shatter everything Gabrielle thought she knew about her family. But some family skeletons refuse to stay in the closet.