A supernatural thriller which tells the story of Jane, a penniless narrative therapist running from a disastrous affair with a vindictive patient, who is given a last chance in a remote corner of the Isle of Wight to solve the mystery of a young man who suffers from crippling PTSD.As she begins to read his stories, overcoming her disbelief, she is drawn deeply and inextricably into a tale of a love affair at the heart of a secret web of events where three lives intertwine, connecting herself, Alice Capper, a disfigured missionary adrift in Cathay and Rosie Cotton, a destitute fisherman's daughter.Spun over one and a half centuries, this gripping tale tightens its hold as Jane realizes that there is no escape from a past involving smugglers, an enchanted figurehead, a shipwreck, Charles Dickens, survivors of London slums and the story of Ventnor and Bonchurch and how they rose from a remote Isle of Wight beach to a Victorian resort.