Tess Palmer is unable to have children, and desperately wants a family of her own. But deciding to adopt Heather (10) and Grace (3) through an illegal agency could be the worst decision she s ever made. The girls dark past, furtive manner and increasingly strange behaviour only makes some sort of sense when Tess discovers that Heather witnessed her mother s murder. But it s still not clear who killed her, and Tess is determined to find out, whatever the cost.