Fifteen-year-old Juliana struggles to adjust to life in Blackthorn, England, and when a grisly murder shocks the town, she is haunted by long-buried secrets from her family's own past.
An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.