Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She hates her job, she doesnt love the aristocratic man to whom she is engaged, and her relationship with her controlling mother is becoming increasingly strained. So Ellen cuts all her ties to chic London society, fleeing to the one place she knows her mother wont find her--her aunts charming and secluded cottage on Ireland's wild Connemara coast. Conor Macausland cuts a dark, lonely figure. His wife, Caitlin, died tragically at the old lighthouse, and her loss has devastated him. Still, when he and Ellen meet, a connection sparks between them. Yet Caitlin's restless spirit is determined that he should never love another.