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Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up together in a small town in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Bonded by both having lost a younger sister to suicide, they've always had a close - sometimes too close - friendship. Now in their twenties, their lives have finally started to diverge: Daphne is at university and Finn is working in the Mountains, as well as falling in love with a beautiful newcomer called Magdu. Unused to sharing Finn, Daphne starts to act up in ways that will allow her to maintain the control over her best friend she's always relished.

On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Durton, best friends Ronnie and Esther leave school together. Esther never makes it home. Ronnie's going to find her; she has a plan. Lewis will help. Their friend can't be gone; Ronnie won't believe it. Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels can believe it; she has seen what people are capable of. She knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible. Lewis can believe it, too. But he can't reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret.

Ein sengend heißer Freitagnachmittag in Durton, einer Kleinstadt im ländlichen Australien: Ronnie und Esther, beste Freundinnen, fahren gemeinsam nach der Schule nach Hause - doch nur Ronnie kommt schließlich dort an. Die zwölfjährige Esther bleibt zunächst verschwunden, eine groß angelegte Suche beginnt - bis wenige Tage später ihre Leiche gefunden wird. Was ist geschehen? Die kleinstädtische Gemeinschaft kämpft mit Trauer und Schrecken ob des Verlusts - und mit gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen, die nicht lange auf sich warten lassen.