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Alice Kessler spent nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who killed her son. Now she's returned home to Gray's Island to reconnect with the son she left behind. Her boy, Jeremy, now a sullen teenager, is wrongly accused of rape, and mother and son are thrown together in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence. Alice is aided by Colin McGinty, a recovering alcoholic and 9/11 widower, also recently returned to the island in the aftermath of his grandfather's death. Colin's grandfather, a famous artist, is most beneficial known for his haunting portrait, Woman in Red, which is of Alice's grandmother. In a tale that weaves the past with the present, we come to know the storyline behind the portrait, of the forbidden wartime romance between William McGinty and Eleanor Styles, and the deadly secret that bound them more tightly than even their love for every single other. A secret that, over fifty percent a hundred years later, is about to be unburied, as Alice and Colin are drawn into a fragile romance of their own and the ghost associated with an enemy from long ago surfaces in the form of his grandson, the man in charge of sending Alice to prison.