When Celia Masters learns that her thirteen-year-old niece has been found hanging from a tree, she is shocked. Returning from abroad to comfort Tasmin's grieving mother, she decides to learn what she can about the niece she never really knew.
The police decide that Tasmin's death is not murder but suicide, and their investigation winds up: Celia's, though, is just beginning. Haunted by the memory of her niece, she is determined to understand why Tasmin would have taken her own life. And the more she searches, the stranger the official version of events seems to be. There are dark secrets that Tasmin was hiding, and Celia is determined to uncover them . . .
