"One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky arrives at Chynalls to find the beautiful old house crumbling...

A strange, psychic bond of love and understanding unites four generations of a Cornish family of shipbuilders.

Victoria and Guy Blakeney-Jones inherit the tiny Cornish island of Trelise, but as Victoria sets out to restore the gardens of the Priory, she finds a skeleton with a fractured skull and, through a search of the library and boxes of letters and diaries, hints of a truly tormented history.