The truth can bring out the worst in the best of friends.
Esme and Benedict Werner have an idyllic life in a tight-knit community
until an accident in their cul-de-sac ends in the tragic sudden death of
one of their dearest neighbors. After vindicating eyewitness accounts
morph into contradictory memories, suspicion, and unaccountable
accusations, Benedict is arrested. Esme's life, too, is changed forever.
As the neighborhood largely turns against her and her family, Esme has
time to think about her past and what to do next. Then her fellow
residents start looking deeper, questioning one another, and themselves,
about hidden lies and betrayals.
Esme has more than her share of secrets. And the consequences of what
happened on that fateful late-summer evening on Raven Lane are far from
over. When the mask of civility slips, can friends and neighbors recover
from seeing the monstrous truths beneath?