Jenna Write, the novels protagonist and narrator, braves each day she is without her mother. With the death, and Jenna being a minor, it was decided by the courts that she live with her step-father and step-brother. Her step-father was a neglectful man and also thought to be a suspect in the case of her mothers untimely death. The murder was considered by police to be an accident, but Jenna and a few others, excluding the step-family members, believe it was no accident. They have contacted lawyers, studied the evidence on the scene but the new break in the evidence lie in Jenna's mother's private journals.