Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother Haille was unhappy in their blue-collar mining town but with her fathers unwavering love Melody always felt safe
- until a terrible mining accident ripped her from her familys moorings. Still devastated by her fathers death Melody leaves West Virginia with her mother to follow Hailles dreams of becoming a model or actress. But first they make a stopover in Cape Cod to visit Melodys fathers family for the first time. Melody knows only that her grandparents disowned her father when he married her mother
- but now moments after Melody first sets eyes on her dour Bible-spouting Uncle Jacob nervous Aunt Sara & her cousins handsome Cary whose twin sister Laura has been killed in a sailing accident & sweet deaf little May Haille announces that Melody is going to live with them. Sleeping in her dead cousin Lauras room Melody knows nothing of the dark deceptions that are soon to surface the sad shocking truth about her parents
- & the devastating betrayals that she is about to face.