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Two sisters. One missing locket. A murder witnessed only by a blind girl. A killer who escaped without a trace. Seventy years later, biographer Ginny Mersea is hired to tell the story. A task that seems impossible with her only source an ailing blind woman. Diving further into the past reveals a spiderweb of conspiracy far bigger than Ginny thought possible. Who is Adley Moore? What does she have to do with the Osborne sisters? And could a mysterious illness lead to a murderer?

Lady Adelaide Attwood is a vivacious free spirit who prefers her imaginary friends to her mundane life at Glenmore manor. Lady Rosalind Attwood is a model of Victorian propriety whose deep resentment and jealousy of her sister breeds psychotic violence. The stage is set when Claire Wheaton arrives to work as a lady's maid. Her gentle and quiet spirit soon ignites the hostility between the sisters, and someone is allowed to die.