Two women, a tragic entanglement and a deadly secret. Sorcha O'Donovan grows sheltered in Ballymore on the south coast of Ireland. When she is 16 years old, she falls madly in love with the musician Con Daly, a loner who lives in a hut on the beach. A secret relationship begins between the two, but it leads to a scandal: they are betrayed from the village by Helen McCarthy, who is as wealthy as she is resentful, and in his anger Sorcha's father banishes his daughter. The two leave their Irish homeland overnight to start a new life in London in the 1960s. And there, in the seething metropolis, a dream comes true for Con: the rise from penniless street musician to leader of one of the most successful bands of his time. But when Helen shows up in London, the course is set for a drama that runs its course relentlessly ... Biography (Lucinda Riley)