On a hot summer's afternoon, Ursula Salter runs, sobbing, from the Highland loch and bursts into the house with devastating news: Michael! I've killed him. I've killed him. But has she? No body can be found, and the only other witness to the event might have an agenda of his own. Ursula is 29 but still in many ways a child, and has trouble separating facts from fiction. Until a strange and chilling revelation changes everything...