The news headlines: Child Murders Her artist Mother’s Lover. All family’s morals are laid bare. And a group of people have to face their moments of truth. 

          You will meet Luke Carey, who woke up one night to the telephone call that altered his entire life; Nora, his first wife, who believed that her only responsibility was to her ever hungry body; Dani their daughter, fourteen and rudderless in a glittering adult world; Marguerite Cecilia Hayden, Dani’s grandmother, who could manage two huge fortunes but not her amoral daughter; and Elizabeth, Luke’s second wife, who took a gamble few women would willing to take.