After twenty years away, Jo Devereux flies home to Ireland for her mother’s funeral — the mother she hasn’t spoken to for more than two decades.

Every minute there reminds her why she left, and she has no desire to reacquaint herself with the old country... or with Rory O’Donovan, her lost love. Then, she is bequeathed an inheritance chest full of letters and journals by her grandmother... and some long-standing secrets are cracked open.

Who murdered her uncle in the Irish Civil war, that bitter feud that turned friend to foe, and tore families apart? How had the ideals of the Easter Rising degenerate into lies and silences? Can she remain true to both heart and heritage?

In unearthing the bitter history she shares with Rory, Jo finally understands why their young love was doomed from the start, but now their loyalties are about to be tested as never before.

Jo knows well from her own life what it takes to rebel… but what happens after the rising?