Rosalyn Snow never expects to find her missing father's coat beneath Exeter's old Exe Bridge, least of all on a man running from the police.
Convinced he may hold the truth she has sought for years, she brings Simon Balfour home to Dunn House for Christmas.
Simon withholds clear answers, and the little he reveals only deepens her questions.
As glittering guests fill the house with holiday celebration and whispered ambition, he moves as easily through society as he does among the vagrants on the docks.
During the Twelfth Night celebration, the past he has carefully guarded reaches Dunn House and strains the estate's fragile peace.
Rosalyn is left asking what became of her father, and who the man wearing his coat really is.
