Connor is the son of Inman's former lover, Kathryn, a woman Edward has been unable to purge from his life and heart in spite of his best intentions. It is Edward who first realizes something is amiss at the home of Doyle Cutler, when he responds to a so-called false alarm and later picks up a stumbling, inebriated Connor Williams walking away from Doyle's estate. The story is told primarily through the perspective of Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Security, a private security business that has prospered from the increased paranoia of average citizens. Soon everyone takes a side, Mary's credulity hampered by her father's very public blunders.
Stoneleigh College, Mary is a quiet girl, but her accusations bring out a pettiness in her fellow students that burns like a forest fire. Since the death of his wife from cancer a few years earlier, Walt's drinking has kept him in the public scrutiny. Unfortunately for Mary, her father, Walt, is an object of derision since an electrical accident cause irreversible damage to his body. Secrets and lies are at the heart of Amidon's effective novel, the drama of public accusation and private revenge in the sleepy college town of Stoneleigh, Massachusetts, when Mary Steckl accuses a wealthy local man of attacking her one night at his luxurious estate. "Kathryn had learned that the small favors were as likely to be denied as the big ones."
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