'Behind her, along the cliff's edge, house-lights were starting to twinkle, delicate pinks and yellows and whites, depending on the colours of curtains and lampshades. Ahead of her the pier curved protectively around the bay, its high storm-wall seeming almost impenetrable.'
This is the backwater world of Moncas Bay that still represents home to businesswoman Lainey Conroy as she embarks on a new life to try to forget her past. So when the apartment of her dreams comes on the market in the city, she's determined to buy it. But bidding against her for artist Liz Lacey's luxurious penthouse apartment are the world and his wife. Including Lainey's own sister-in-law and jealous rival, Cecily, who seeks the ultimate escape from her two-up, two-down origins back in Moncas Bay, and who will stop at nothing to prevent Lainey from acquiring it.
Behind the dreams, behind the ambitions of those who have set their hearts on Apartment 3B lies a hidden landscape: of girlhood rivalries; of local daughters made good; of being the talk of the Bay; and, all too often, of disappointment . . . and exciting new beginnings.
