As if from nowhere, she appears, on a seaside promenade, with a black flower and a horrifying story about where she's been - which starts a chain reaction of dangerous lies that will claim more victims ... Neil Dawson, though devastated when his father - a writer - commits suicide, knows something isn't right. And when he finds, among his father's possessions, a copy of an old novel, THE BLACK FLOWER, Neil will be taken into a dangerous and painful investigation. Hannah Price is also mourning her father. Following his footsteps into the police force, she has a big reputation to live up to. When she's assigned to Neil's father's case, it will lead her on a journey into her own past and to the heart of a shattering secret.