Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her armsAca'A| Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden Aca’“ visiting his wife, Laura in hospital Aca”‘ is witness to MaggieAca'a cs deathbed confession. But some secrets are best kept secret, and what started out for Dryden as a small and curious story about the only survivor of an almost-forgotten plane crash soon escalates into a full-blown murder investigation. And while Dryden is wondering what other secrets Maggie carried, his semi-conscious wife is trying to tell him something that might just save his lifeAca'A|