Fifteen years after the birth of her daughter, conceived after a brief affair, Katie O'Dwyer succumbs to cancer. Her daughter, Caitlin must go to England to live with the father she has never met. Over the years Caitlin and her half-sister's lives take them in many different directions, but you cannot escape the claims of family.
"I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you love, then whatever it is, I am going to track it down and I am going to take it away from you." After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Betty's father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman. Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura discovers the unforeseen lengths she is willing to go to for love and vengeance.
You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrow...