It was more than just the cold and damp clime of the English midlands that kept Nara Blake awake at night. Her father was dying, and the man that she loved and once hoped to marry was avoiding her. When someone tries to break into the old, stone Gate House where they live in the small town of Springfield in Lincolnshire, Nara quickly learns that that the house is filled with secrets. And soon the small English town where nothing ever happens is suddenly besieged with burglaries and a murder. When police liaison Alex Collier arrives undercover on the trail of international art thieves, Nara and her family fall under suspicion. Can Alex help Nara clear herself and her family, or will he have to build the case against her?