When it comes to families, is anyone a reliable witness?
Cherry Magraw can never forget the date her mother and brother were killed - the night of her ninth birthday. When her father was jailed for their murders, she lost everyone she loved.
Twenty years later, Cherry is a freelance journalist investigating domestic abuse and the secret world of the family courts, when she gets a letter from her father - still in prison for the killings - which contains a startling request.
From that point on, her past becomes entangled with her work, dismantling everything Cherry thought she knew about her family tragedy and plunging her into a dangerous of game of cat and mouse. Will her history cloud her judgement about another desperate family? And how far will she go to save someone else’s children?