When Julia MacCleod finds a hidden cache of letters from her great-aunt Helen to her grandmother Kate, she uncovers a tragic tale of duty and duplicity dating back to the days of the British Raj
Eighty years later, the passions and betrayals of her family's colonial past and the heart-stopping story of her great-aunt's struggles against the scheming of her spoilt sister and domineering mother provide Julia with a strength of purpose she never knew she possessed, and the means to deal with her own troubled circumstances
But can she learn from the lessons of that distant time..?