Santa Montefiore

Fleeing a hated job and a fiance she does not love, Ellen visits her aunt's cottage on the wild Irish coast of Connemara and becomes engrossed in a local tragedy involving a young mother's death in a lighthouse fire, while the ghost of the victim watches over her family and mourns her lost future.

Traces the parallel stories of Grace Hamblin, a beekeeper's daughter whose security is challenged by her father's death, and her daughter, Trixie, who remains steadfast to an unworthy lover.

In 1925, with the war over, Celia Deverill seeks to restore her ancestral home, while her cousin Kitty must make a heartbreaking decision, and Bridie, the daughter of a former castle cook, plots revenge against a woman who wronged her in the past.