A dilemma divides the village...From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Turnham Malpas and Barleybridge series.

An unwelcome visitor arrives in Turnham Malpas. Why is Bryn Fields - who fled four years ago under the worst possible circumstances - back? And what are his plans for the village?

For the rector and his wife, Peter and Caroline, there are more serious problems to cope with when their twins start asking about their real mother. Having accepted her husband''s indiscretion ten years ago, Caroline finds that facing up to it again now is almost more than she can bear...