A horrific shadow from the past . . . and a shocking tragedy in the present.

Fifteen-year-old Matt Moore has a loving mother and a caring stepfather, a host of friends, and a growing relationship with the most beautiful girl in school. All signs point to a bright future, until fate intervenes. A sudden fire leave Matt's senile and troubled grandmother homeless. When she moves in with the family, her ceaseless demands cause unrelieved tension - and with her comes a shameful secret between her daughters that traps Matt between a dead aunt who haunts him and his own mother, who seeks redemption for her sister's sins - and her own.