Jane Rose is trying to find her way home. After a childhood spent on the move, following her parents from country to country, she is lonely and dislocated. Then she meets Ben - fascinating, complicated, and irresistible. But Ben, too young, too avid for adventure, proves an unsafe haven. Eight years later they meet again. Ben has a wife, Rebecca; Jane has a child, Beattie. When tragedy strikes it pushes them back together again. Blinded by love and grief, Jane clings to Ben, but nothing is quite as it seems.