Rowan Patrick always believed her mother to have died twenty years ago. Until learning otherwise ... She goes to the Lake District and finds the Halstead family into which her mother had married after her divorce from Rowan's father. Laura and Chris Halstead are welcoming and explain the calamitous events which severed Rowan's connection with her own mother, twenty years earlier. But Damon Halstead resents Rowan's arrival and suspects her motives in coming ...