A chance to uncover the secrets of her past

On the morning of her eleventh birthday, Daria Cato finds an unexpected gift on the beach - an abandoned baby.

Unable to leave the child

unclaimed, the Cato family adopt Shelly, but the question of her birth haunts the local community.

Twenty years later Rory Taylor returns home - and will not rest until he has answers for Shelly. As closely guarded secrets and sins begin to unravel, piece by piece the

mystery of the summer's child is about to be exposed. A mystery no

one involved is prepared to face.

A truth that will change her future forever

From the author of The Midwife's Confession

'This complex tale will stick with you forever' Now magazine