The headmistress of a prestigious private school disappears after a student is injured. Neither the family lawyer nor the police inspector believes the girl’s story of how she was hurt. When young Raegan McAllister returns home, she finds it no haven. Her guardian, an older half-sister, resents the child she’s never met and is determined to send her back. As the investigation continues, a tangled web of secrets, bitterness, animosity, vengeance, and madness push everyone to the brink. Can Payton McAllister, head of a large shipping agency, forget the hatred she has for her absentee father in time to save her younger sister from the madness that threatens them?