Having lost her mother in a car crash at the age of 4 Blue van der Meer israised by her eccentric Swiss father who has made his way in America as aleading econo... » 

Having lost her mother in a car crash at the age of 4 Blue van der Meer israised by her eccentric Swiss father who has made his way in America as aleading economist. Following his wifes death Gareth van der Meer becomes atravelling academic taking Blue from town to town while maintaining a constantregime designed to educate cultivate and mould young Blue. For her final yearher father suspends their nomadic lifestyle in order to send Blue to an eliteprep school. Here joins a circle of protgs under the guidance of Hannah oneof the schools teachers. There follows a story of mysterious disappearancesand a violent and unexplained death which is to haunt the group and Blueparticularly who searches for the truth behind the murder for some time tocome. «