This is a dark story about the secret that House has held close to his chest for almost forty years. The secret involves his step-cousin who has moved to Princeton as a guest lecturer for a year. Will he finally come clean? Lots of angst.

House gets a strange request from his mother-help the nephew he never knew he had. He flies to Portland only to be swept up in a family drama that involves the gorgeous, but solemn woman who meets him at the airport, a riddle that must be solved.