Growing up Anna admired and emulated her unmarried Aunt Rose who led a much more exotic and glamorous life than her mother. But as her mother lies dying Anna finds out that the woman she looked to more than her own mother betrayed them both in the worst way. Now an acutely mistrustful adult Anna suffers yet another betrayal at the hands of her lover. Looking for an escape Anna returns home though it means helping her aunt run the family restaurant. Rose who for 20 years has struggled to regain Annas trust realizes that although her niece has come home its clear she doesnt plan to stay. Feelings are frosty as ever and Anna is so deadset on leaving that she fails to recognize true love even as it reaches up to grab her by the heart. Moving funny and ultimately reassuring about life and love Gaffneys new novel is just the thing her readers have been waiting for.