The Sunderly family had to move to Vane after Erasmus Sunderly scandal about his finding of a fossil had turned out to be a fake.

Faith Sunderly -- the daugther -- a bright, wise, and intelligent, for her sexuality at the era of 1800 -- had always bore a passion toward science just like her father Erasmus Sunderly.

The death of his beloving father, at the time when Faith had convinced herself that her father indeed saw her as a wise girl -- had brought her into madness. Finding out about the specimen her father was currently working on upon reading his journal, had brought Faith to what The Lie Tree was able to do. It fed on lies and revealed secrets -- and the real truth about his late father. And Faith afterward would never be the same herself anymore -- not 'just' a girl, a female anymore.