After a memorial service to celebrate the life of Professor Robert Osbourn, whose death is shrouded in mystery, Rea Parker is introduced to the three women he married and his two daughters; five women wearing the black of mourning, but not all carrying the same weight of grief. In her quest to write an accurate biography of Dr. Osbourn, Rea interviews these women and finds out some very troubling aspects of his life. During her investigation, she becomes a possible accessory to murder, loses two men she had no intention of loving, and unexpectedly rediscovers one of them.