Why has a total stranger called Lesley Cameron left everything she owns to the psychiatrist and author Dr. Fidelis Berlin? And what did Lesley Cameron have to do with Murdo Wood-Wolferstan, now a high court judge, who is the son of Fidelis's oldest friend and mentor? Drawn reluctantly into a tangle of deceit and delusion, Fidelis finds that suddenly she has to question decades-old relationships. Could it be possible that one of her dearest and closest confidants is a murderer?