About the book: year / Scottish village of Altbea, forties. Flora Gordon lives with her father, caretaker of the vast Ardtuat estate. The owner's son, Alec, is her best friend since childhood. Young people grow up, and it becomes clear that they are connected by more than just friendship. But Alec’s influential father, Sir Charles, doesn’t want to hear about his son’s ridiculous hobby. Tension rises, and the lovers seem to be losing their only chance of salvation. And when, with the outbreak of war, their remote village becomes a staging area for ships carrying ammunition from Britain and America, the life of the close-knit community is changed forever. Decades later, Flora's daughter, singer Lexi Gordon, is forced to return to the village and the tiny cottage where she grew up . Now back with her own daughter, she discovers that her mother has long been hiding secrets that force Lexlie to question everything she thought she knew about herself and her past. It's too late to repair her relationship with her mother, but will Lexie be able to find in her the heart desires to let go of what is gone and lost, and finally find its place in the world?