Kirwan
House School in rural New South Wales was once a place of harmony and
promise-until 1990, when senior student Jessica Vaughan disappeared
without a trace.

Despite a national search, no answers emerged. Her seven closest
friends were left to carry their grief for decades, bound together by
silence and memory.

Thirty years later, crime writer Neroli Woodhouse, one of those
friends, discovers an unexpected link: a fatal accident in rural New
Zealand in 1975 and the skeleton of a young woman found on a remote
Queensland beach.

As Neroli works alongside police and detective Cass Diamond,
connections long buried begin to surface. What they uncover will
bring Jess’s story-and the hidden truths of Kirwan House-into
the light, in ways no one could have foreseen.