
When Evas film star sister Katrina dies she leaves California & returns to Cornwall where they spent their childhood summers to scatter Katrinas ashes & in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries & see & talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler a man who lived
- & died
- long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present & in laying her sister to rest comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs choosing between the life she knows & the past she feels so drawn towards.