Meredith Stratton worked hard to become a successful businesswoman — and now she owns six elegant inns all over the world. But on a trip abroad she is struck by a strange illness, one that seems to have no physical cause. Meredith has always played by her own rules — and won — and now she must uncover the roots of this mystery ailment that threatens her future happiness. The answers lie buried somewhere in her forgotten past. And with the help of a caring psychiatrist, Meredith will have to peel back the layers of her most carefully designed and constructed creation: herself.
Barbara Taylor Bradford is a best-selling British-American novelist.
Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
She wrote 39 novels, all bestsellers in England and the United States.