Three sisters growing up in the shadow of their father's obsessive drive to recapture his lost muse, the woman he threw into the cold Irish sea. The scion of a great family estate in Virginia, falling in love with the wrong sister, blind to the ice at her core. A girl, rejected and ignored by the man she loved, choosing to walk away forever. A man living a life of regret and sacrifice, trying to atone for a New Year's Eve kiss that wrecked his marriage. A fragile wife, lost in her own lies, unable to halt the devastation she set in motion with one vicious word. A woman haunted by a moment of blood and violence, when she reached out and took a man who didn't belong to her. On a clear summer day, Laura St. Bride's life changes in smoke and flame. Even as the fires of grief rage on, a man reaches out from the past and tells her to come home. Can she truly go home again? Can sisters, bred to be bitter rivals from birth, learn to forgive the sins of the past? Can a family, once smashed apart, find peace and rebirth? Can a man and a woman cast aside the violence and betrayals of the past and reach out to claim the last love of their lives? Book One of a Trilogy. 195,000 words.