From the author of Never the Moon and Dancing with Ghosts, comes a new contemporary fiction novel of romance and drama. Mary, still reeling from the loss of her husband, is living a quiet life, running a boarding house in the seaside town of Righteous Creek, her only priorities her two teenage daughters. But the tranquillity in which she lives is about to be rocked with the appearance of Lawrence, ten years younger and with demons of his own. And there is more at stake than just a love that cannot be fulfilled. Just when Mary defies her heart, her world is turned upside down again and she must make an unthinkable decision, an impossible choice.