Sunday Times bestselling author Kathleen Tessaro returns with a stunning new novel that will be a big hit with fans of her debut success Elegance It's 1987 & Evie is leaving home for the first time headed for London to study acting. Along with her fellow students & roommates Imogene (a born again Laura Ashley poster child & frustrated virgin) & Robbie (native New Yorker budding bohemian & very much not a virgin) Evie's determined to make her mark both on stage & off. But then life & love in the shape of struggling rock musician Jake Albery intervene. & everything changes. Fourteen years later & Evie's stuck. She's now a single mother teaching drama classes her dreams long since abandoned. Robbie's dead killed in car accident & Imo's lost touch. Then a friendship from the past comes to haunt Evie. Literally. & suddenly everything is about to change again.