A gripping, emotional page-turner from bestselling author Claire Amarti, about the lengths to which we'll go to protect the people we love… even if it means living with a terrible lie.

‘I’m glad you’re all here today… because there's something I've been wanting to share with you.’ 

Dad looks out over the sea of guests and rubs his hand across his forehead. He's shaking, I notice. And then suddenly his knees buckle and the glass drops from his hand like a grenade, an explosion of deafening silence. 

My father is lying face-forward in the grass. 

‘Somebody call an ambulance,’ a voice shrieks. And the world as I know it ends.  

Dinah Spencer is back in her childhood home for one stressful weekend: it’s her father and stepmother’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Those years haven’t all been easy ones for middle child Dinah, but she’s getting ready to put the past behind her - until her beloved dad collapses in the middle of a startling anniversary speech. 

Now, with their father in critical condition, Dinah and her younger sister Lottie must find a way to keep their crumbling family afloat. But everyone’s got demons of their own to battle, and secrets of their own to protect. Not to mention the box Lottie finds in the attic which belonged to her father's first wife. A box whose explosive secrets Lottie is just starting to unravel...