A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant school headmistress; Marley, an unfrocked missionary priest; and Benny, a seventeen-year-old criminal who has taken sanctuary in the school...

Poised between adolescence and young adulthood and living with the challenges of NF1, Josie's only connection with the world is a love of Shakespeare. When new girl Ash shows up at drama class Josie seizes the chance to change her story.