When Amy Warden disappears without trace, her lovers, the muscular Frank Varley and the aesthete Lord Hardcastle, put aside their differences in their attempts to discover what has become of her. Soon, old secrets begin to rise inexorably to the surface - secrets that will have far-reaching consequences for the Warden family...

This is the first novel by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, best known as the creator of Loveday Brooke, the lady detective.