Mildred Dephane is a duty nurse working graveyard shift on a hospice ward. For nine years she has slept through the daylight. But a mysterious new patient?a failing, helpless man over a hundred years old?shocks her awake as he begins to describe crimes that have gone unpunished for a lifetime.
Mildred Dephane is a duty nurse working graveyard shift on a hospice ward. For nine years she has slept through the daylight. But a mysterious new patient?a failing, helpless man over a hundred years old?shocks her awake as he begins to describe crimes that have gone unpunished for a lifetime.