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From the bestselling writer of The Moonlit Garden comes the sweeping, loving tale of 1 woman's quest across two continents and a hundred years of record to unearth her family's deepest solution. Diana Wagenbach is the sole survivor in a withering family tree fraught with secrets. When the first in a trail of signs is passed down to Diana by her great-aunt on her behalf deathbed, plus a plea to assuage their family's guilt by exposing all, Diana obliges. She practices the signs - a picture here, a notice there, a pressed frangipani bloom in a book - that take her away from her philandering hubby in Berlin to a wonderful manor in Britain and all the way to a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. Diana unravels the remarkable tale of her great-great-grandmother, Grace Tremayne, using Jonathan Singh, a local historian and copy writer - and someone with whom she feels a deep bond that sparks into relationship. As Grace's tragic recent in unique colonial Ceylon is disclosed and the family's sins come to light, Diana finds inspiration in her ancestor's courage and begins to rethink what contentment - and love - is worth, and the way the surest route to peace is within setting the reality free.
