The story opens at Morwell House, an ancient hunting lodge shrouded in Yorkshire fog and darker secrets. Ignatius Jordan sits beside a cradle, gaunt and haunted, while outside a furious man named Ezekiel Babb arrives demanding answers about his daughter, Eve. But Eve is not simply missing, she is the invisible center around which tragedy revolves, a woman whose choices will unravel both families and expose the poisonous legacies they carry. As Barbara, Ignatius's own daughter, enters the picture, the fates of these wounded people interlock with devastating force. The novel builds toward a reckoning where love becomes destruction, where the sins of fathers render their children collateral damage, and where the question of who we truly belong to, blood or choice, ends in catastrophe.
