Publisher's Synopsis
In 1944, 16-year-old Violet Shine fell in love. For Violet it was a pure, passionate love that would never die. But to her parents the affair was a shameful episode that must be concluded and concealed. In their austere world, the only solution was to imprison their beautiful young daughter in the tower room of their rambling cliff-top home, Whitecliff. Sixty years later, Claudine Armstrong is involved in the sale of the now derelict Whitecliff. Rumours have long surrounded the house and its former owners; rumours that Claudine has always dismissed as idle gossip. But one visit to the house is all it takes to draw her into Violet's story. At a turning point in her life, Claudine is unsure about her marriage, her career, her future direction. As her world becomes entwined with Violet's, it seems that the secret locked away all those years ago could be the very thing that sets Claudine free...
