April 1989: sisters Alison and Jacquie Barnett take a holiday to Greece neither of them will ever forget. For Alison falls in love, a love that is to define both their lives ...

Eleven years later, Sophie and Chris Lilburn leave London for a new life in Westmead, and a teaching job for Chris at the local cathedral school. But their delight is tempered by Sophie's longing for a child, by the sinister gossips who exercise control over the community, and by the unsolved murder of a young woman ...

When Jacquie's father dies, she discovers he has split everything equally with her sister, whom no one has seen for eleven years. And Jacquie, desperate for the money, has no choice but to try to trace her. It is a journey that takes her to Westmead, and stirs old emotions that will once more put lives in danger ...