1949: During the coldest winter Seattle has seen in decades, pregnant
sixteen-year-old Brigid Ryan arrives at Fairmile, a home for "fallen
women" run by the Catholic Church on a remote island in Puget Sound. She
and her baby will disappear before the snow melts.
2013: Ex-cop Frankie Gray is escaping a career in ruins and hoping to
reconnect with her teenage daughter, Izzy, while summering with her
mother at The Fairmile Inn, soon to be a boutique hotel. But when an
elderly nun who worked at the home in its former iteration is found dead
in suspicious circumstances and then a tiny skeleton is discovered on
the grounds nearby, Frankie goes looking for answers. Then Izzy
disappears, and as Frankie races to find her, she turns up a secret that
will force her to question her own history and the identity she thought
she knew.
Over sixty years separate the disappearances at the Fairmile, but
Frankie suspects that they may share the same dark root; in the
suspenseful, atmospheric investigation that follows, she finds that the
truth is as foggy as the rocky, isolated island on which that darkness
thrived.