Family. A group of people you are related to by blood or love. Nora Schaeffer has come home to her family after twenty years working around the world as a photographer for National Geographic. She's welcomed into the open arms of her father and siblings. Family. A group of people who support you, lift you up when you fall. Shannon, the youngest of the four Schaeffer siblings, has vanished, leaving her five-year-old daughter, Bella, terrified and alone. To help find Shannon, Nora has no choice but to turn to the dark-haired specter who has haunted her for twenty years. Along the way, she finds her own long-dead heart and uncovers chilling family secrets beyond imagination. Family. A group of people who will stick together to hide the rotten soul at its core at any cost. Who will live? Who will die? Who will be the most damaged? And who will learn to love again?