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Fen Crozier is living in Belfast, homeless and a fugitive from justice. On the last day of 1957, her father, Victor, is hanged for the murders of a Catholic priest and an Orangewoman. Fen herself is not completely free from guilt in the murderous rampage that tore her life apart in the last year.

She risks arrest by visiting the Crumlin Road Gaol on the morning of Victor’s hanging. There, she is approached by Geordie Maguire, who claims to be her half brother and tells her she also has a grandfather, Alfred Crozier.

Drawn into the troubled dynamics of this new branch of her family, Fen agrees to return to Greycastle at the behest of Alfred. There, she is forced to flee from the hostility and threats of her one-time neighbours, exposing her to danger from both the officers of the RUC and old enemies from the IRA.

Not knowing who to trust and growing ever more isolated, Fen must find enough inner strength to escape a situation that threatens not only her fragile state of mind but her very life.