An epic story of wartime family secrets & forbidden love set against the stunning exotic backdrop of 1940s Kashmir. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime... Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Deep in the exquisite heart of Kashmir lies the lakeside city of Srinagar where the British live on carved wooden houseboats & dance flirt & gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw closer & life in Srinagar becomes less frivolous when the men are sent away to fight. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship & by the time she is reunited with her husband the innocent Welsh bride has become a different woman. Years later when Mair Ellis clears out her father's house she finds an exquisite antique shawl a lock of child's hair wrapped within its folds. Tracing her grandparents' roots back to Kashmir Mair embarks on a quest that will change her life forever.