It is the story of eleven year old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, so people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Will Rees returns home after travelling the country following his wife's death. He finds himself happy again with his son David and Lydia, the housekeeper, who, surprisingly, makes him happier than he dares admit. That happiness is shattered when he learns of the murder of an old friend. Will accepts the request to look into the circumstances surrounding the death, and discovers that someone in his friends' household is concealing something. But does...