When Hillary Nathan's dark past is revealed. She realizes she must leave her life in England behind. Bittersweet memories of the one she once loved who brought a storm of chaos that nearly destroyed her life begin to flood her consciousness as she prepares to flee her home in Kent. As she begins to flee England, she experiences flashes from the past. The bloody murder. The girl she once loved more than life itself. All of it. For the first time, Hillary Nathan is finally forced to face what happened all of those years ago as a grown woman, and she learns to let go of the memories of a young Juliet Hulme that have haunted her for forty years. A story of love, obsession, and bloodshed inspired by the 1954 murder of Honorah Mary Parker in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Maria, born into a wealthy family in the Pruitt Empire, has endured a life of shame and misery. Her reputation as a snobby, rude woman who always gets what she desires is the subject of widespread gossip. However, Maria, who has been severely mistaken about her true character, must now prove her innocence after the brutal murder of the Duke of Norkan's brother. The Duke has vowed to kill whoever took his brother's life. Can Maria save her own life and find the real killer?