Janice Keaton is living a quiet, easy life when a longed-for reunion with the daughter she gave up for abortion several decades earlier drags into a lethal contfrontation with her past.

Did her brother, Dan, die a natural death? Is Joe, her former lover, really an acid casualty, or was there another reason for his abrupt withdrawal from Public life? And what is her granddaughter, Molly, hiding?

As she struggles to come to terms with a soties of shocks, Janice realijos that her recollections of the past hold a sinister sekretorius - one with deadly consequences.

And then Molly disappears...