At the manor Laсhet preparations are underway for an important event—celebrating Simon’s coming of age, the eldest of the three offspring of the Ashby family. In just a few weeks, the young man will enter adult independent life, and with a decent fortune—his prematurely departed mother left him a substantial sum. There were supposed to be two heirs, but Simon’s twin brother, Patrick, couldn’t bear the news of their parents’ deaths and took his own life—at least that’s what everyone in the remaining family believed, because they had personally read his suicide note and issued instructions for burying the body that the sea had thrown hundreds of kilometers from home.
So it’s not hard to imagine Ashby’s astonishment when, almost eight years after the incident, on the threshold of their family estate appeared none other than the presumed-dead Patrick…