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Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.

I just can't understand how someone like him could do something like that. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty. Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his childhood best friend, and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, secrets from his past and why he left home bubble to the surface as he questions the truth of his friend's crime.

Významná rodina Sinclairovcov prichádza každé leto na svoj súkromný ostrov pri Massachusetts, aby tam trávila prázdniny. Rok čo rok sa tak stretávajú aj štyri spriaznené duše, sesternice Cadence a Mirren, bratranec Johnny a Gat. Ten celkom nepatrí do rodiny, čo mu hrdí Sinclairovci dávajú pocítiť. Rodina ich nazýva Klamári. Sú v rovnakom veku, a keď sa stretnú, robia len zlobu. Počas pätnásteho leta sa na ostrove stane nehoda. Cadence nájdu na pláži takmer bez života. Keď sa po čase preberie v nemocnici, na nič si nepamätá. Nikto z rodiny jej nechce prezradiť, čo sa vlastne stalo, a nasledujúci rok jej zakážu vrátiť sa na ostrov. Cadence trpí príšernými migrénami, jej najvernejšími priateľmi sú lieky proti bolesti. Píše Klamárom e-maily, posiela pohľadnice, no ani od jedného nedostáva odpoveď. Dokonca ani od Gata, s ktorým sa do seba zaľúbili. Čo im spravila, že na ňu zanevreli? Na sedemnáste leto sa dostáva na ostrov opäť a Klamári ju privítajú s úsmevom, akoby sa nič nestalo. No ani zďaleka to nie je pravda...