When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son has been murdered. The spotlight falls heavily on the grieving mother who is both victim and accused. Could she have killed her own child, or is the loss of her boy pushing her to insanity? An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime?