A murder. A family in mourning. An old promise.It's the 1870s, and Emma Haythorne's comfortable life on her family's sheep station on the Murray River is about to be turned upside down. She isn't the only one dismayed by the quarrelsome visitors who arrive at her neighbour's property, where she is helping care for a terminally ill woman. But nor is she one to step away from a problem. So when one of those visitors turns up dead in the stable, and that old promise rears its ugly head, she's prepared to investigate the death. But the promise? Well, she'll avoid that if she can. Of course, if she draws the attention of the killer the promise won't matter anyway.
