Publisher's Synopsis
1968. From the bestselling author of the Laurelhurst Chronicles series comes the penultimate chapter in the saga: a gripping, moving tale of separation, self-discovery, new beginnings, and reconciliation. Kate. A mainstay on Swinging London's party circuit for years, Kate is plunged into a sordid world when Lord Elliott Cutterworth kicks her out of her home and takes custody of their daughter Violet after she relapses on her journey to sobriety. Separated from her family, she's determined to get clean and regain custody of her daughter. On the run from Elliott and her old life, she finds assistance in her reluctant brother-in-law, Edward Cavert, who is running away from some secrets of his own. Can she put away her past, face down Elliott, and reconcile with her family? Lydie. When her youngest son is sent to a residential school for children with intellectual impairments, grief sends Lydie into a downward spiral, and her once loving marriage is in jeopardy. After botched treatments leave her memory in tatters, her husband, Henry, sends Lydie to a psychiatric hospital in Kansas that can help her restore her memory and her sanity. There, Lydie meets new friends, all the while reconnecting with a childhood friend, Lord Christopher "Kit" Alderley. As she puts the pieces of her life back together, can she finally leave the haunting memories from her youth in Lancashire behind her and reconcile with her brother and her husband?
