Can a summer secret from the past allow a new future to bloom?
For two people who run competing arts centres in Cornwall, Sybill
Helyer and Coren Penhaligon get on rather well. So well in fact that
Sybill often wishes the owner of Pencradoc Arts Centre would look up
from his spreadsheets for a minute and notice her. Unfortunately, even
that's too much to ask from workaholic Coren.
However, when the pair join forces to run an exhibition on the wild and
wonderful life of Elsie Pencradoc, a talented artist who lived at Coren's
estate in the early twentieth century, they're in for a surprise. How will a
secret sketchbook and an exquisite gothic dress from a long-ago
midsummer costume ball lead them to the scandalous truth about Elsie
- and perhaps encourage them to reveal a few long-kept secrets of
their own?