13-year-old Emily begins receiving secret admirer notes in the library, taking her on a journey of discovery through literature, romance, and ultimately a bittersweet personal history.

Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.

A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.