Fiona O'Brian

Shelley Fitzgibbon has it all – three beautiful children, a charismatic successful husband and the life of her dreams.
Then her husband Charlie disappears, leaving more than just a business empire in crises..

The luxurious family home is sold and while Shelley’s daughters Olivia and Emma come to terms with being broke, eleven-year-old Mac refuses to talk about what happened.

When Charlie’s estranged mother Vera opens her doors to the broken family, secrets from the past emerge that reveal there’s more to the Fitzgibbons than meets the eye.

As Shelley struggles to keep her family together she begins to wonder if she ever really knew the man she married.

Meanwhile, six thousand miles away in sunny Cape Town, Charlie is wrestling with with life-changing decisions of his own.

Is blood always thicker than water? Maybe Charlie’s family are simply better off without him....