Romantic and escapist debut fiction from the nation's best loved TV presenter, Carol Kirkwood.
‘A real treat, wonderfully escapist with heart and drama – marvellous!' Anton du Beke
‘Utterly engaging, deliciously escapist, with a heart as warm as its author's' Cathy Kelly, bestselling author of The Family Gift
Hollywood actress Shauna Jackson should have the world at her feet. Instead, scandal and betrayal have tarnished her happiness and she is left reeling in the aftermath. When Shauna is offered the role of a lifetime, it's the catalyst for her return to the Greek idyll of Ithos, the jewel of the Mediterranean, and an island of secrets.
Grace Taylor has come to the Ithos on a voyage of discovery and finds herself bewitched by the thyme-scented groves, and bleached white houses bounded by a sapphire sea. When she becomes entangled in the family of the enigmatic tycoon, Demetrious Theodosis, her arrival heralds a reckoning in the family that threatens to tear them apart.
As their lives converge, a yearning for the truth will force them all to confront the past, and take them from Hollywood to Monaco, and back to one summer long ago …
