About this audiobook

She can see echoes of the past — but every vision costs her an emotion she'll never feel again. Cassia Blackwood doesn't have a gift. She has a bill. In the seaside town of Tideswell, she makes candles and pottery and keeps to herself — which is easy when you've already lost Shame, Nostalgia, Anticipation, and Contentment to the echoes that play when her skin touches a surface. Only Joy and Love remain, and she guards them the way you'd guard the last matches in a storm. Then Owen Hallett — charming, nervous, asking too many questions about old families and cliff properties — is found dead inside her locked kiln. The iron door bolted from within. No way in, no way out. Detective Rhys Carrick arrives from London with a breakdown in his past and too-keen eyes. He notices that Cassia doesn't scream. He notices she answers too precisely. He notices she's hiding something — and he's right.