There is no statute of limitations on murder.

That's all the anonymous letter said, but attorney Hailey Sutter understands the meaning behind the well–chosen words: Someone wants her to investigate what happened to her mother, who died when Hailey was only seven.

The death was ruled accidental, but Hailey begins having flashbacks that tell a different story: a pounding at the door her mother struggling to stand a man with a gold ring that flashed in the night as he held the lifeless body.

Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Hailey can't trust anyone, and especially not her father, whose secrecy both unnerves and protects her. Desperate to remember that fatal night she determines to seek out the brother and sister who left home after their mother's death. But they have disappeared. And it's soon clear to Hailey that the answer is right in front of her. All she has to do is find the courage to look closely