Lucinda Berry serves up a haunting thriller about four friends sworn to secrecy over the events of one fateful summer - and the dark truths that threaten to erupt years later. They never considered how his wife might react, or that by the end of the summer a man would be dead.

But Blakely always got her way, and the others followed her lead - even when they knew it was dead wrong. The girls had been friends from day one at Camp Pendleton, a haven for gifted children. But their senior summer was different. When Mr Crosby, the handsome tennis coach, wound up murdered after a reckless lie, Blakely, Grace, Meg, and Thera swore themselves to secrecy.

And never spoke to each other again. Until now. Twenty years later a sinister note claiming to know what they did brings them back together. And once again Blakely is pulling the strings.