Some secrets are better left locked away forever. Imagine this: your husband writes a letter that you must open only after his death. Now imagine that the letter reveals a dark secret capable of destroying not only your established everyday life, but also crippling the destinies of many people around you. Cecilia Fitzpatrick is a wonderful wife and mother of three growing daughters who accidentally finds a letter her husband wrote years ago, asking her to open it after his death. But her husband is still alive and well—he begs her not to open the message under any circumstances. However, Cecilia does open the letter, and the terrible secret she learns from it radically changes not only her family’s life, but also the lives of people she can barely even call hers…