Sue and John Hacket are contemplating the ruins of their marriage. The brutal murder of their young daughter has brought an already strained relationship to breaking Point, and to try to salvage their lives they retreat to the small, peaceful town of Hinkston. But Hinkston isn't peaceful any more. It's being torn apart by a series of horrific unexplained murders. And it holds a fateful, fifty-year-old secret - a secret with such appalling consequences that it was supposed to have died during the war. It didn't ...