"Mallory Carlisle has her hands full dealing with financial troubles she's determine to hide, an absentee husband, two active daughters, and a family whose demands for loyalty border on the obsessive. Yet the most devastating secret of all--the one her family is desperate to keep buried--is the one that lurks in Mallory's subconscious. One day at a family gathering, long-suppressed memories come to the surface--forcing her, at last, to confront unbearable...

"Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his...