Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the
serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she
disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on
the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name.
Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks
and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not
the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or
their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit
is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a
window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down
her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she
discovered a letter on Martin’s pillow and burned it,
unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night
everything changed forever…