A powerful family drama set in India and Scotland, this novel follows young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, as she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. Though Bess makes a new life in Edinburgh and knows the joy and pain of motherhood, she cant forget about the boy she left behind in India. When Frazer, the man she left her son with, travels to Scotland 20 years later, it seems Besss dreams of a reconciliation will come true. But Frazer trails danger in his wake, and soon he and Bess and her whole family will live to rue the day of his return.