When Estelle Lynch takes her own life, she leaves in her wake a mystery that will rock her daughter Holly's world forever. A box of secrets which holds the key to Estelle's true past is found in her possessions and the identity of Holly's father is only inches away. As Holly battles with her grief, the obsession to find the perpetrators who made her young mother's life a misery threatens to ruin everything Holly has ever known. Soon, Holly finds herself dicing with a torrid and dangerous back story that leads her into a cat and mouse chase taking her from Ireland's northern shoreline to the heartland of Belfast... and to the city of Dublin and into the path of celebrity chef, Max Kelly. Holly's instincts go into overdrive as she becomes more and more convinced that the handsome father of two is linked to her mother's death. But somewhere between her instincts, her mother's diaries and what she learns about Max Kelly lies the truth between the life she knows and the life she only thought she knew...