How far must you run to truly escape your past? Annie thinks she has found the answer when she leaves her home on the west coast of Ireland and boards a ship for New York. Irish maids are in demand in the 1920s, and she finds work with the wealthy Cavendish family in their opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. Annie soon makes a friend too, an Italian waitress named Elena.
As their friendship deepens into something more passionate and dangerous for them both, however, Annie s past rises up to haunt her. Once again she will be forced to flee. A century later, in post-pandemic Ireland, Emer is also running, and finds a haven in her family s home in West Kerry.
But here, too, the past is refusing to die, and as Annie and Emer s lives intertwine, long buried secrets are about to be revealed.
