Julia Swann has a brilliant career as a television journalist, but she has never recovered from the tragic death of her first love, Emmet. She is now married, her husband Jeffrey Jameson being much older and a multi-millionaire hotelier. He is estranged from his youngest son, so Julia has never met Allan, who has been living and working abroad as a doctor with an international medical charity.
When Allan comes back to Dublin on sick leave from war-torn Syria, he is immediately attracted to the woman his father has married, and she – she is aghast to find – to him. Not least because her wounded heart sees a startling resemblance to her first true love Emmet. But she must crush this passion that threatens to engulf her. She must not allow herself fall in
love with her stepson. Or is it too late?