Some memories never fade.
They simply wait to be remembered.
Margaret is eighty-one when a little girl next door begins skipping rope and humming three familiar notes. She hasn't heard that tune in sixty-eight years. But Margaret remembers.
She remembers Alice—the girl who was her best friend, the summer of 1958, the dangerous beck behind the garden, and the day everything changed.
For nearly seven decades, Margaret has carried a secret she has never spoken aloud. She has convinced herself that silence was the only way to live with what happened that day.
Then an unexpected letter arrives. Old memories begin to surface. Questions she buried as a child return with a force she can no longer ignore.
What really happened to Alice?
