Simla, India, 1914. Married at eighteen to the dashing Jack, beautiful Elizabeth Ravenhart is devastated when their dazzling party of a marriage is cut tragically short.

Without a penny to her name, Bess is persuaded by Jack's mother, the indomitable Cora Ravenhart, to return to England, leaving her infant son Frazer in his grandparents' care until Bess can afford to send for him. But Cora has no intention of parting with the boy, and Bess's departure attempts to track them down come to a shattering conclusion.

Twenty years later, a knock on Bess's Edinburgh front door sets in motion a chain of events that no one, least of all Bess, could have foreseen. For Frazer has come to claim his family - and his birthright, the majestic, brooding Ravenhart House. None of their lives will ever be the same again...

A breathtaking journey from Colonial India through wartime London to the remote wilds of Scotland, Judith Lennox's stunning new novel is an unforgettable story of love and loss, greed and desire, and the secrets that can bind a family - or ultimately destroy one...