Claire Quinlan is unlucky in love and fed up with her life in Dublin. So when an opportunity arises to transfer to the Sydney office of her company, she grabs it. She sets up house in Bondi with her old friend Fiona, finds a new boyfriend Paul, and is sure that her life has changed for the better.
But her new job and boyfriend are more challenging than she imagined. She finds herself falling for the handsome American vice-president, Robert Pozos. Robert is sophisticated and charming and very complicated. He spells another broken heart, but she just can’t seem to stop herself …
Then Claire uncovers a corporate fraud and she suddenly doesn’t know who she can trust. Everyone has something to lose: Robert, Fiona, Paul. But Claire, who always played it safe, is risking the most …
Niamh Lynch appears to have it all: a high-flying career, a handsome, successful husband and a loving family. But looks can be deceiving.
From the moment she has to deliver the terrible news that there will be heavy redundancies at her workplace, her marriage crumbles and her life falls apart.
Certain cracks have been there for a long time, since her family left Ireland. Others are new. Who will catch her as she falls? Her mother whom she can’t forgive? Her father from his grave? Or Scott, a man who has just lost his job, but who seems to understand her like nobody else does.
Katie Horgan should soon be made partner at her law firm, but her love life is going nowhere – until she meets Jim Donnelly. Jim is smart, handsome and, like her parents, Irish. But he already has a girlfriend.
When Katie is sent to Ireland, she happily settles into her work at a clinic that provides free legal advice to the homeless. She befriends Mags who makes it her business to initiate Katie to Dublin’s social scene. Then Jim Donnelly comes home on a visit, and everything begins to unravel …
The truth comes out, about Jim, Mags, and the reason that Katie’s parents left Ireland – and Katie learns that life is not as black and white as she always thought.
Sarah Ryan grows up in her grandmother’s house in a small Irish village. Sarah is clever and ambitious and eager to move away from the sleepy village. She fully believes that John Delaney, the boy-next-door and her first love, will be right by her side … until he breaks her heart.
Jodi Tyler is raised on Sydney’s northern beaches amidst a close and loving family. But Jodi has a secret, a tragic secret which leaves her determined to make a success of her life. Like Sarah, Jodi’s grandmother ends up providing her with a home. And when Jodi falls head over heels in love, she too ends up with a broken heart …
This is a story of two remarkable women who face all life’s challenges head on – and those they love and lose on their journey. Set in Ireland, Australia, London and New York, Sarah and Jodi make their way in the world unaware that their lives are running in parallel and it is only when they both want the same thing that their paths will finally cross …
