An unexpected inheritance unlocks secrets from the past.Jack Lancaster. A name Ellen Oakley has never heard before, and yet the old man has left Ellen an English seaside cottage in his will.With a catastrophic year behind her-a broken engagement, the sudden death of her father, and more recently, lay-offs at work, she being one of the casualties-the only thing standing in Ellen's way of flying to England to claim her inheritance and make a fresh start, is Lillian Oakley, her mother.It takes some convincing, but Ellen manages to get her mom to agree to accompany her to England for a time. As the quaint English cottage on the Norfolk shores offers up its ghosts and skeletons in the closet, one woman finds closure, the other a new beginning.