<p><em>"A highly ambitious, engaging, and evocative novel and a hauntingly captivating read."</em> -The Sunday Independent</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What happens when a woman is haunted by the sins of her foremothers--and the men who betrayed them?&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo Devereux has spent the last six months in Mucknamore, the small hometown that she ran from twenty years ago,&nbsp;investigating her family's troubled past.</p><p><br></p><p>A trunk of letters and diaries left by her grandmother and great- aunt reveals a heartbreaking legacy of bitter secrets - secrets that have haunted the women in her family for four generations.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Now she must find out the ultimate truth</strong>: Who really killed her great uncle? What secrets and lies lay under her mother's and grandmother's unshakeable silence?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And then there is Rory... her childhood love and the son of her family's sworn enemies. Could Jo's mission to uncover the truth be the key to a possible future together? Or will it be their undoing?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>As she pieces together the poisonous fragments of the past, Jo must now face up to what knowing the truth means for her future-- or risk losing everything all over again.</p><p><br></p><p>Read this haunting, heartbreaking saga of love, loss, and secrets in a country and a family ravaged by all kinds of intimate war.&nbsp;</p>