The tragedy tore them apart. How does a family survive the loss of a child? Alone again, desperate to pick up the pieces of her life, Claire returns to Bohenna, the small Cornish village where she grew up, married and had her children. It's five years since nine-year-old Gilly disappeared without trace, taken by a summer visitor. Old rsentments run deep though and not everyone is pleased to see her. Bohenna's a insular place, all gossip and rumour and intertwined lives. And what if Gilly wasn't taken by a tourist? Claire's increasingly convinced she never left the village at all...