A hauntingly gripping novel based on the infamous true case of Lizzie Borden, accused of murdering her father and stepmother in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. Told through the eyes of Lizzie's sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, the enigmatic stranger Benjamin and the beguiling Lizzie herself, the events of that fateful day are slowly revealed... Lizzie Borden took an axe. Or did she?