Secrets and lies can destroy a marriage.

Eleanor Finch loves to paint, and she loves babies. Her six siblings are all married with babies, lots of babies, and she is desperate to escape her lonely existence and have a family of her own.

Viscount Julian Heyer, a childless widower, is looking for a wife who can provide him with an heir. Rich, charming and an art lover, he finds Eleanor, with her large family and wide hips, a perfect candidate.

Love blossoms.

Five childless years later Eleanor is blamed and Julian becomes cruel in his disappointment. He needs an heir and refuses to accept he may be infertile.

Divorce looms.

Robert Heyer, Julian's evil twin is dying and hell bent on wreaking Julian's life before he goes. Robert sends Eleanor on a quest to expose the dark family history of infertility, infidelity, insanity, murder and suicide.

But will Robert's dying words prompt Eleanor to do the unthinkable and find the courage to achieve her dreams?