Mentally devastated by the recent loss of her baby Groniya Ryan returned to Ireland, where loving parents. And here, on the edge of a cliff, the first time she meets a young girl - Aurora - that will radically change her life. Groniya is mysteriously attracted to the Author and discovers that the fate of their families are weird and deeply intertwined.
The bitter romance of London during the First World War to the troubled relations in contemporary New York, from devotion to a "abandoned" child to forgotten memories of a lost brother - the fates of families Ryan and Lyle intertwine over a century. Ultimately, it is intuition and the remarkable spirit of fragile Aurora will help to break the spell and unlock the shackles of the past.