Holly Wilson has landed a dream job which involves her staying at five-star resorts around the world. There is however a proviso. She must travel incognito and that means telling lies. Holly hates lies. Her cover story, designed to minimise conversation on the subject, is that she is returning to her honeymoon destination for closure after her husband's sudden death. Holly has never been married but she does have a nineteen-year-old son, Harry, who she has raised single-handedly by working as a freelance copy editor after her boyfriend at university, Gareth, left to study in America, without...

Holly Wilson seems finally to have it all: a beautiful baby daughter, a son about to embark on an exciting career, a glamorous new job in television, and an adoring boyfriend in bestselling novelist, Philippe. But something isn't quite right...

In another part of the country, Carol is reliving memories - dreadful memories - of sins committed against her and those she has inflicted on others. Her carer, Helen, hopes a vision from the past might help mend Carol's broken soul.

What links Holly to Carol and Helen? And who is Nick, the handsome stranger who has just walked into...