Twenty-four years have passed since a monstrous crime shocked all of Kansas: in a small town, a fifteen-year-old teenager brutally murdered his own family. Then, miraculously, only seven-year-old Libby survived, but the tragedy that happened left an indelible imprint on her future life. The young man is serving a life sentence, but he never admitted to his crime. Libby, once the prosecution's star witness, finally decides to confront her brother after so many years. It’s scary to return to the past, especially since sinister secrets are hidden behind its veil... The novel is being published in Russian for the first time.