Helena Manning goes missing from her family home on the night of the celebration of her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

The police investigation opens a can of worms. Multiple scenarios unravel. No one is above suspicion, not even the people who should be looking for her. The deeply divided community of Torginay, rattled by the consequences of the coalition government's savage cuts on welfare, is in shock. Helena Manning had made some powerful enemies over the years as chair of a local charity, heads of hedge funds and multinationals who may have wanted her gone. The Italian mob, she had accidentally got involved with, was hot on her heels. Or maybe the culprits were to be found closer to home, among her own flesh and blood. Years of agonizing wait without news of Helena follow, until one day...