After serving ten years of a life sentence for murder, Stephen Dawes was released on licence to start a new life. But Stephen could not let the past bury itself — he alone knew he had not killed his wife Marcia.

           As Stephen set out to reconstruct Marcia’s last hours — the time she must have spent plotting a suicide meant to look like a murder — he gradually began to realise that nothing was as it had seemed…. And that he was chasing a murderer himself — and putting his own life in jeopardy.