The Glass House

Childhood memories are always the most vivid. Especially those that haunt in nightmares. At the age of seven, Stella Hudson fell silent for several months after discovering her mother's lifeless body. And Stella has not had the strength to figure out the details of the tragedy even now, thirty years later. Now Stella helps children who find themselves in difficult situations, but perhaps there has never been such a complicated case in her career. Nine-year-old Rose Barkley is just too reminiscent of Stella's own most terrible night. After the death of her loved one, Rose also stopped speaking. The girl's nanny fell out of the window. An accident or murder? Much about this story looks suspicious. Even the family mansion itself is suspect, as not a single glass item remains. And it seems that all the inhabitants of this mansion had a reason to wish ill to the nanny… including Rose. Stella's task is to decide with whom the girl will stay after her parents' divorce. But maybe the focus should not be on how to protect the child, but on how to protect from the child?.. As she immerses herself in this challenging case, Stella realizes that she must not only uncover the whole truth about the Barkley family but also finally come to terms with the past of her own family…