A life-changing love story. A devastating decision.


An emotional, gripping family drama about relationships, secrets and jealousy that will stay with you long after the final page, from the author of Broken Country.


1972. Alice Garland can't take her eyes off Jacob Earl. With his black curls and snakeskin boots, the lead singer of the Disciples commands the stage. It's the beginning of a passionate relationship. For a while it feels like they're at the centre of something electrifying. But it doesn't take long before the dream starts to fall apart.

2000. Even the arrival of his gorgeous baby son can't stop Luke feeling like an outsider. When he finds his birth mother, Alice, it seems like he's found the missing piece in his life. And she seems delighted to be a grandmother.

But Alice is still battling with demons of her own - she's still not forgotten the heart-breaking event that forced her to give up Luke.

She will do anything to stop history repeating itself.


'I lost sleep over this. Beautifully told . . . I loved it' JANE CORRY, author of My Husband's Wife



'Haunting and heart-rending' VICTORIA SELMAN, author of Truly Darkly Deeply


'The grip of a thriller, but the emotional depth of a tragic love story. A heart-wrenching novel about families and love that will stay with me for a very long time' FRANCESCA JAKOBI, author of Bitter

Previously published as MINE under Clare Empson