When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a
secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her
English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's
death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the
past--a past that is as secret as his father's den in the old poison
shed. Eventually the murderer is exposed, but not before a family has
been split apart and old wounds revealed.