This chilling legal thriller that brings readers into the depths of human memory. For generations the Underhill family has dominated Pennsylvania politics. Now, with their youngest son locked in a tight gubernatorial race, a simple accident threatens to derail the entire campaign. Floss Underhill, the family's elderly matriarch, has been discovered alive after falling from a gazebo into a ravine, and Brenna Kennedy gets brought in as a defense attorney for the family. The police don't think her fall was an accident-and soon neither does Kennedy. Kennedy's partner, psychologist and memory expert Jim Christensen, has been studying Floss Underhill for months in a group of Alzheimer's patients. Her mind ravaged by the disease, her body broken by the fall, Floss Underhill nevertheless knows something, and is trying to tell Christensen a family secret so explosive it could bring down an empire. But to bring the truth out, Kennedy and Christensen will have to face some powerful enemies in this twisting mystery-thriller.
Michael Connelly, New York Times–bestselling author of The Black Box
"Powerful figures tread a dangerous path through dementia, pity, and murder in Martin J. Smith's compelling new novel. . . No reader will walk away untouched."
