Twenty years ago, Edith Wainwright watched her lover Jack hang for a murder he didn’t commit. Even though three eyewitnesses claimed they saw someone who looked like Jack at the scene, Edith knew he was innocent: the two of them were together the night of the murder. But Jack refused to testify in his defense, and made Edith swear never to tell another soul where he had been. He was willing to die, he said, to protect her.
Since then, Edith has done her best to move on and build a life with her husband Charles—Jack’s best friend and the man she was cheating on that fateful night. But decades of guilt and lies have taken their toll, and Edith has started to wonder about the real reasons behind her long silence. When she hears rumors of a mysterious figure visiting Jack’s grave and walking the hills in a long black veil, she knows that her ghosts are returning.
Now, Edith must confront her past and uncover a town’s long-hidden secrets. As the only person who knows that the real killer is still on the loose, she must find the answers to all the questions she has been afraid to ask. What else was buried with Jack’s bones? What doesn’t she know about Charles, Jack, and their history together before she met them? And most of all, what really happened twenty years ago under the town hall light?