When a skeleton is unearthed on a vast, long-abandoned, country estate, everyone imagines it is the heiress, Camellia Dawson, unseen for twenty-five years. The ensuing investigation uncovers three more bodies - none are the long-missing girl. Where is Camellia? What happened to her, and why? And whose are the four bodies? The heart-wrenching truth could never have been imagined. The tale of a neglected, lonely, and loveless, young woman, who, in desperately seeking her father's love, makes a series of ghastly choices.