Abstract: When Celia Masters learns that her thirteen-year-old niece has been found hanging from a tree, she is shocked. The police decide Tamsin's death is not murder but suicide and their investigation winds up. Celia, however, decides to learn what she can about the niece she never really knew and haunted by the memory of Tamsin, determines to understand why she would have taken her own life. The more she searches, the stranger the official version of events seems to be. There are dark secrets that Tamsin was hiding, and Celia is determined to uncover them...