Take the key, my pet. I can''t ever go back. The last letter I had from Ireland was clear about that. But one day you may need a safe haven, and it''s the one thing I can give you. Ireland is in your blood, it will keep you safe.''
When Grace arrives tired, tearful and rain-soaked in Roone Bay, the little Irish village where her grandmother Caitlin grew up, she is overwhelmed with longing for Caitlin''s safe, warm arms. The crumbling wreck of Caitlin''s once-beautiful childhood cottage - whose key Grace was given on her wedding day as a secret refuge if she ever needed it - is not the fresh start she''d hoped for. But with her young daughter Olivia to look after and a painful past to hide from, Grace has to stay strong.
Plucking up the courage to ask for help from her kind new neighbours - including quietly rugged carpenter Sean Murphy - Grace gets to work making the house habitable. Soon the view of the deep emerald sea has her capti
