When nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper marries a wealthy widower and arrives at his Ceylon tea plantation, she envisions a life of domestic contentment. Instead, she encounters hostile workers, suspicious neighbors, and mysterious remnants of the past—a trunk of old dresses, an abandoned grave—that her husband refuses to explain. As Gwen struggles to find her place in this unfamiliar world, a catastrophic event forces her to make an impossible decision that will alter everything.
