The premise of Lynne Pemberton’s fifth novel is: Did Monroe and Kennedy have a child?Kate O’Sulliavan has only known the harsh regime of an Irish orphanage. Beautiful, wilful and uncowed by the cruelty of the nuns, she falls passionately in love with a handsome young priest. Father Declan Steele struggles to resist Kate’s overpowering sexuality and the tension between fairth and flesh reaches breaking point.She runs away to Dublin and comes under the protective wing of a cultured older man, Brenden Fitzgerald, who helps her build a dazzling international career as an artist. She trades her consuming passion for Declan for the security of marriage to fatherly Brneden but temptation is too much for the orphan and the priest.In the turmoil, tragedy and scandal that follow, Kate’s notoriety raises ghosts from her past. Suddenly she is swept along in a search for her true identity – a search that takes her back in time, to an illicit love ad the long-buried secret of a movie goddess and a White House legend.
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