Cork, Ireland 1965The residents of Chapel Street go about their business and enjoy knowing everyone else’s.Despite money being tight, Liam Tobin is the happiest boy in Ireland. He has everything he needs, a happy family, loving parents and a chance to realise his dream of one day becoming a priest. Patrick Lynch lives across the street but his life is in stark contrast to his friend Liam’s. Patrick hates his father, with good reason. He knows there is only one way to escape and he is determined to take it, but one decision threatens to destroy all of Patrick’s dreams. Hugo FitzHenry seems to have it all, wealth, power and a position in life, but Hugo has a dark secret, one that could ruin everything if it got out.The three boys are thrown together by fate, and through the years the boundaries of their friendship is tested to the limit. Only by sticking together can they prevail. Or fail. Jean Grainger is a USA Today bestselling author from Cork, Ireland. She writes engaging and intriguing Irish historical fiction as well as heart-warming contemporary novels frequently found on the Amazon bestseller lists. Her style has been compared to the late great Maeve Binchy, of whom she was a huge fan. Before writing she was a tour guide of her beloved Ireland, a history lecturer at a university and a teacher at a secondary school. (She also tried selling things but the less said about that the better). She loved all of those careers but has finally opted for spending most of every day in pyjamas making things up, surrounded by empty tea cups and crumbs. She lives in an Irish stone cottage and is married to a lovely fella altogether, has four magnificent children, and two micro-dogs that are cute but clueless.