Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge.
Harriet, just a baby when her nine-year-old brother was murdered, decides at the age of twelve she is tired of living with the repercussions of his death and sets out to exact revenge on the man she believes to be the killer.