When Estelle Lynch takes her own life, she leaves in her wake a mystery that will rock her daughter Holly’s world forever. A box of secrets which holds the key to Estelle’s true past is found among her possessions and the identity of Holly’s father seems within her grasp. As Holly battles with her grief, the obsession to find the perpetrators who made her young mother’s life a misery threatens to ruin everything she has ever known. Soon, Holly finds herself dicing with a torrid and dangerous back story that leads her into a cat-and-mouse chase taking her from Ireland’s northern shoreline to the heartland of Belfast . . . then to the city of Dublin and into the path of celebrity chef, Max Kelly. Holly’s instincts go into overdrive as she becomes more and more convinced that the handsome father of two is linked to her mother’s death. But somewhere between her instincts, her mother’s diaries and what she learns about Max Kelly lies the truth between the life she knows and the life she only thought she knew . . .