Love, betrayal, family secrets, and political intrigue collide when a powerful politician's forgotten scandal is unearthed by an unlikely young heroine after she finds a clue in a secret locket.

Sofi Vadoma is a marginalized Roma from a remote village in the Dobrich Province of northeastern Bulgaria. Bright and determined, Sofi dreams of rising above her lowly status through education even though she is required to attend a segregated, reduced-curriculum school. Her reclusive mother has never been married. Consequently, the Roma community ostracizes them and Sofi is bullied by her...