When a letter from her uncle Henrick summoning her back to Bastian arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, Bryn is eager to prove herself to the family, even as she learns the Roths are still engtangled in the kind of dirty business that got her parents killed years ago. Summoned back to Bastian by her uncle Henrik, Bryn Roth is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family. Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone's trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, the Roth's hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn's parents killed years ago. Bryn finds that the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than she can pay. -- adapted from jacket