Christie Ryan believes her extraordinary life has everything she could ever hope for. She travels the globe as a make-up artist, working in exotic locations on movie sets. In between assignments she lives on the glamorous waterfront of Melbourne with her fiancÔe, Derek. Their relationship may not be perfect, but she has finally cultivated the stability that was absent throughout her childhood. Life is good. But time had different plans for Christie. The death of her estranged grandmother draws her into a mystery fifty years in the making and takes her to a small cottage in the seaside town of River's End. She seeks help from enigmatic artist Martin Blake, but their aims clash as she pursues the answers that he is determined to keep hidden. As the secrets of the past begin to unravel, however, so does the safe world Christie has built around her.