Happiness had never been something she'd looked for. A quiet day with no insults or wallops, that was the best she could imagine.
A girl longs to be reunited with her father who's left her in his sister's very questionable care after the death of his wife, her mother. Years later, she is reunited with him almost by chance upon seeing him with his second wife, a woman who's become her friend through their involvement in a bookshop. The reunion isn't all she's hoped for though: she learns that he married her mother for money and remembers that he murdered her. She also realises that he's set to repeat the pattern with his new wife, and that he won't let anyone get in the way, least of all her, if he can help it.