A P.I. Kate Kinsella Mystery. One rainy night by the river, P.I. Kate Kinsella's dog Jasper finds a soaked, frightened young woman. Kate feels obliged to take her under her wing. As Kate pieces together Megan Thomas's strange history, it soon becomes clear someone is after her. But why? Megan tells of a rape she can't remember, of pregnancy and a secret stillborn birth she remembers only hazily. She even has a man's name - Michael Whitby. At night she suffers from nightmares and says she hears her late mother calling her, intermingled with the cries of her dead baby. It's obvious that Megan is under threat, but is she mad or bad? As Kate investigates further, it seems that murder is on the agenda.