Violet White has lived in care for as long as she can remember, knowing very little of her family, except for the letters she receives from her father every year. On her seventeenth birthday she discovers that her father is in prison for the murder of her mother. She must delve into the secrets of what happened on that fateful winters night to prove her father's innocence. But what if there is more to what Darius is telling her? What if the darkness spreads from deeper in his history? What really happened in Brightwick Manor all those years ago?