Introduction

Dodie Blackstock, child of a multimillionaire, was only eight when her mother was kidnapped. The rescue attempt went disastrously wrong, and no body was ever found. Now Dodie is twenty-nine, and her mother''s body has just been discovered - but she has only been dead for forty-eight hours.

Dodie returns to the family home and begins to piece together the fragments of her mother''s life, whilst trying to come to terms with her own troubled past. But someone is watching her every move...