Oxford May Morning. The city rejoices in the spring but life at St Barnabas's College has become increasingly sinister of late and now events have taken a deadly turn. PI Sam Falconer is perfectly placed to investigate. After all she grew up in Oxford and her brother Mark teaches at St Barnabas's. When Mark vanishes and Sam's mother receives a card announcing a funeral mass for him Sam fears her family's brutal history has come back to haunt them. For the Falconers the sins of the father are all too real...