At seventeen Lucien is alone in the world. His mother, his grandparents all have passed away and left him with nothing but a comfortable inheritance and an empty house. Until he finds the letter his mother hid away for him, in which she describes her short marriage to the man she'd steadfastly refused to talk about while she'd been alive- his father. Taking along his best friend and an unlikely sidekick- his unusually beautiful teacher, Lucien discovers his father's life is still tangled in mystery. Who framed his father so long ago and ruined their lives? Why do such outrageous sparks have to fly between his father and his teacher? The mystery deepens when Lucien himself becomes the new target.