Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terrible happened in his past something that haunts him still. A young family friend Clemence is called in to help rekindle his memory. Retreating with Alastair to his remote cottage Clemence finds a peculiar manuscript hidden away from prying eyes. Reading the prologue she discovers a murder by someone very much like a young Alastair. The victim? Clemence's grandmother Sophie. Could this kindly old man truly be a killer? Clemence becomes determined to find out what happened all those years ago even if she must risk everything to do so…