Marie McCarthy

Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. But her husband's horrors of World War 1 overshadow their lives as the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness bring him and all who love him to a terrible reckoning…

Amber Neale returns from India to hear that her younger sister has died and her brother is missing. Privately she blames Uriah Buckley, a local mine-owner. Amber and her Indian friend, Rani, start a successful beauty business, but success can't replace her lost siblings. She wants to know the truth even though Uriah Buckley is determined to stop her.

In 1863 the authorities send Irish orphans Ismay and Mara to Australia against their will. Just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, on arrival they're separated from one another. While Ismay is forced to take a job as a maid miles away in the country, Mara must stay in the care of the catholic mission. Desperate to be reunited, they both run away but Ismay soon runs into danger out in the bush. She is saved by Malachi Firth, but although he's attracted to her, he doesn't want to be encumbered with a wife.

Meanwhile, their elder sister Keara has not forgotten them. But she has had her own struggles to face and by the time she reaches Melbourne in search of her sisters, she finds that the trail is cold. Danger continues to threaten all three girls and they start to wonder: will they ever see one another again?

Book 2 in the Irish Sisters series.