Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker - and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder ...After being charged with killing her father, rather than fight for her freedom, Izzy escapes into the past - her own past and that of the famous Iseult Gonne, after whom she was named. Izzy has spent her adult life in America and it has given her independence, a dream to follow, and the loves of her life - her daughter, Star, and her soul-mate, Zach. But the burden of illegitimacy, and a readiness to sacrifice ambition for love, inhibited Izzy, as they did the other Iseult. As Izzy sets down Iseult's story and unravels her own past, she comes to understand why she returned to Ireland and the father she hated. But to her dismay, she also realizes that when she stands up in court her testimony will have a devastating effect on the two people who mean the most to her...