When Leone Fleming realises the eighteenth-century portrait she's been asked to restore for the Carlton family isn't what it seems, her discovery incites the fury of the owners' youngest son, Piers, who is determined to prevent her from investigating further at all costs.
Meanwhile, Leone's father, a prominent judge, has problems of his own: a gangland killer he helped to convict is out of prison -- and looking for revenge.
Not sure whom to trust Leone turns to an ex-boyfriend for support. But the violence continues, and a brutal murder forces Leone to look behind the shadows that lurk in her own past. Like the portrait, her own story is not all that it seems.