It is the crisis of Sarah’s young life. After finally confronting the reality of her own sexuality and the imperatives of her love, she has finally become Daniela’s lover. Yet that fragile beginning is immediately under peril. Her boyfriend, Alan, has returned from America and both his and her families are eager to formalise the understanding between them. Sarah is ordered by her parents to attend a party at their house in the Southern canton of Ticino where Alan and Sarah will be reunited and a formal engagement and early wedding date are to be announced. Sarah journeys to Ticino to face the hardest choice she will ever make. Will she acquiesce in her parent’s wishes and marry the son of the wealthy Berger family or will she alienate her family completely to make her break for freedom and an uncertain future in a lesbian relationship with Daniela? This, the third novel in this passionate and enchanting drama of Sapphic love, amidst the verdant alpine valley of the Toggenburg, the sun baked lakes and streams of Ticino and a strange and distant island set in the North Sea, follows Sarah on her journey through her sexual awakening and the perilous shoals of a hitherto unthinkable love. The love story between two remarkable women is a lesbian romance the reader will never forget.