With the long summer school holidays coming to an end, Rachel Cook's days are filled with hordes of homework and little time for boredom. But on an unusually hot and sticky Wednesday morning, her uneventful school break comes to a shuddering stop: an innocent trip to the park leaves her with more questions than answers about her family's strange past. As her parents' finances plummet towards the poverty line and beyond, the Cooks end up living high above a seaside town, ...

"We did not hunger for death or the manner in which we met it…We alone must atone for the tragedy that tore us apart… eternity beckons…"