In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted and taken across the
border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, the
owner of one of Toronto's livery stables is found dead. Then a second
man is murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a rebellious
slave. Detective Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto's small
"coloured" community has a vicious killer in its midst - an
investigation that puts his own life in danger. With her usual masterful
storytelling and sharp dialogue, Jennings shows how a great harm
committed in the past can fatally affect the present.