To forgive, you must first understand . . .

Tawray Wild and elemental, Tawray is the Cornish house that holds the history of a family in its very walls. But its turbulent beauty hides the shadows of their grief and losses . . . The past Julia Teague is the youngest daughter in her family. Lonely and imaginative, she loves Tawray with all her heart. But, marked by her mother's doomed struggle to bear more children, she enters her adult years with an inner frailty masked by vivacity and charm.

David Pengelly, handsome and distinguished, is in royal service, aide to the most glamorous couple in the land. Julia steals his heart, but even he falters as the extent of her fragility becomes clear.

The present Tawray is no longer home to the Pengelly family. For Julia's daughter Alex, it is the gorgeous house that holds the memories of her lost mother. She and her brother Johnnie still suffer from the legacy of the past and their tangled relationship with David and Sally, their stepmother, who has always put her own son before them. Time is running out to discover the secrets of what happened to their mother all those years ago. Can they find out the truth about her life and death before it is lost forever?

PRAISE FOR LULU TAYLOR 'Don't you just want to grab this, switch off the phone and curl up on the sofa? Winter bliss from Lulu Taylor' Veronica Henry