Heather Samuelson has always loved puzzles, but her next one may be more challenging than the rest. Heather and her sisters have inherited a letter and a package full of cards from their recently deceased mother. The letter itself contains a rather creepy fairy tale, and the cards were all sent after their father died. What, exactly, was their mother trying to tell them? Heather also discovers a scrapbook with a collection of obituaries and details of a murder trial in her mother's things, further deepening the puzzle. Does it have something to do with one of their father's former clients? After all, as a witness, he helped put away some pretty hardened criminals. As Heather dives deeper into the mystery, the danger becomes all too real. Events in Heather's neighborhood-a burglarized home, a mysterious neighbor, and her sister's near-fatal run-in with a car-are seemingly unrelated to solving the riddle of her parents' past. But it soon becomes all too clear that nothing is as it seems.