What's possible? That every single person in the world is conspiring to make you seem a fool, or that you are only fooling yourself?

Five and half months ago June Connor – high-school principal with almost a thousand children in her charge – was given a death sentence. She had just over five months to put her house in order and to square her conscience. She had work, she had responsibilities. And she had a man – her husband Richard – who had robbed her of her good reputation, her lifelong friendships and her comfort in her old age. A man who would watch her die.

There's one truth that June doesn't want to take to her grave with her. But Richard has other ideas...