"Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the murder of her nanny and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. From the moment Stella steps into the home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the family far more troubled, than she feared. As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays are desperate to hide, her past and present are set on a collision course in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder. Even Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need protection from?"-- back cover.