It’s 1951 and Canadians are experiencing a post-war boom of shiny new cars and an exodus to the suburbs, but modern life seems to have passed by the small town of Creighton Mine. For nine-year-old Rose Boyle unpaved streets and outhouses are all she’s ever known…but change is coming.

It’s been five years since her sister, Virginia, has been home for a visit and the whole town is eager to hear about her glamorous life in Los Angeles, while Rose is determined her sister’s spotlight is just what she needs to stop feeling invisible. Soon after Virginia’s return excitement turns to tragedy when the first murder in living memory casts a shadow over the town. A murder with no suspects and no motive.

When Detective Victor Lapointe of the Ontario Provincial Police is assigned to the case, he expects to wrap it up with little effort, but soon finds that keeping secrets in a small town sometimes takes precedence over the truth. And from day one something about the murder victim stirs up memories he’d rather keep buried.

For Lapointe the killing becomes a chance at redemption and for Rose the murder unveils a family secret she was never meant to learn. One that has her questioning who she is, where she belongs and if she were the next victim…would anyone even care?