Tess Hemming

Tess Hemming is a care-free, loving, and somewhat wild twenty-one-year-old who has gone missing as the book begins. Within a few days of her being reported missing, her body is found in a public restroom in Hyde Park. Her sister is the narrator of the story and tells her younger sister Tess through letters what has transpired since her death.

Tess had been a college art student and talented painter when she became pregnant with her tutor's child. He wanted nothing to do with it, but she saw it as a miracle, the miracle of life. Since her brother, Leo, had died from cystic fibrosis as a child, she had her baby tested. Supposedly it tested positive for cystic fibrosis and underwent experimental gene therapy. Everything seemed to be going well, but three weeks before she was due, she went missing.

There are several possible suspects in...