When Roland Hargrove summons his estranged family to his remote country estate, nobody wants to be there. His daughter needs his money. His lawyer knows too much. And the young man who wasn't invited has been waiting twenty years for this moment.By morning, Roland is dead. But nobody knows that yet.Dorothy Hale has kept this house for forty years. Now she is keeping one thing more — the secret of what she did, and why. One letter at a time. One year at a time.Four people are pulling at the same thread. Only one of them knows where it ends.Some houses keep their secrets. Some secrets keep their houses.