Luke Paige, historian and writer, runs into a woman he hoped he would never see again. Lola Faye. When Luke was very young she'd had an affair with his father and it blew his family apart. Now the years have passed and Lola Faye wants to talk. Painfully, Luke and Lola revisit the terrible events that have shaped their lives.

The story they reveal is one of the timeless struggle between fathers and sons, of longed-for passion, of hopes and dreams thwarted by fate and circumstance. This is psychological suspense at its best.