Now facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo Devereux’s time is running out. She has spent the last six months in Mucknamore, the Irish village she fled twenty years ago, with a trunk of old letters and diaries left by her grandmother and great-aunt.

The papers have revealed a heartbreaking legacy—bitter secrets that have haunted the women in her family for four generations, and forced Jo out of Ireland, and away from Rory O’Donovan, the only man she ever truly loved.

Now facing the birth of her child and single motherhood, Jo must face the ultimate truth under her mother’s and grandmother’s unshakeable silence–and how it somehow connects with her failed life as a gender-bending agony aunt in San Francisco?

As she pieces together the poisonous pieces of the past, can Jo redeem the legacy of guilt and shame bequeathed to her? And what of Rory, son of her family’s sworn enemies, now mired in family troubles of his own?

Will their mission to uncover the past unlock a possible future together? Or are they about to lose everything all over again?