Amy Devine is a successful businesswoman with a beautiful house and a great life, which is thrown into disarray when a manuscript arrives on her desk one morning.

The Devine family live with a fifteen-year-old mystery—Ruth Devine, Amy's estranged cousin, was kidnapped without a trace when she was in college.

The writer lures Amy back to Waterford with information on the tragic childhood she spent there. Questions abound. What was the real story surrounding her parents death? What guilty secrets can lie at the heart of a country village? What happened to Ruth Devine?

Does the writer know and what has now been planned for Amy?