Given his profession as a Historian, it was inevitable that Mark would find himself one day writing the biography of his late father, the acclaimed author Charles Packard. As his biographer, Mark is blessed with a wealth of material: first-hand experience, his father's own work, the testimonies of his Aunt, and Charles' friends, colleagues - and enemies. Yet what he uncovers is unexpected, revealing elements of his father's life that resonate with his own. The parallels he reveals begin to intrude in a very tangible way on Mark's interpretation of own his life, his history becoming more closely aligned to that of his father. Instead of being the closing of a chapter, a sealing up of the past, the biography proves to be something far darker, unleashing personal daemons that Mark could never have anticipated.