1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything suddenly & coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness. Seventy years later historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime: to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford. But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare. Radford's investigations trigger a violent series of events which throw him straight into the path of those who believed they had escaped punishment for crimes long past but never paid for...