Abby Stafford, a rookie writer for an architectural magazine, believes she has everything shes ever wanted. When she stops by her parents beautiful Victorian home to tell them of her engagement to Michael Thiesan, she makes a grisly discovery. Her father, Erik Stafford, an esteemed and prominent lawyer, is hanging in the attic. His mysterious suicide and her mothers unexplained absence catapults Abbys life into chaos. The traumatic event not only leaves her temporarily colorblind, a transient condition that haunts her for months to come, but also unlocks devastating childhood memories. All of her personal relationships threaten to crumble after she learns the truth behind her fathers suicide and discovers that shes been betrayed by those she loves most.