Life has never been kind to Doreen Wallis - but now she has reached her lowest point.

Alone, penniless and dangerously ill beneath the blazing sun of Cairo, Doreen has nothing left. Tony has deserted her, the man she called her husband is dead, and with no job and no future, despair seems her only companion.

Then fate offers her a chance. A chance to begin again - but a chance based on a lie and the identity of another.  With nothing left to lose, Doreen finds the courage born of desperation and takes the risk to begin again, travelling back to England, determined to grasp the future she has been given. Yet every step of her new life carries the threat of discovery. One wrong word, one mistake, and the fragile world she has built could come crashing down.

But how long can anyone live a lie? And can Doreen ever find the love she longs for if she must hide who she truly is?

All is told in this moving story of survival, courage and the extraordinary risks one woman will take for a second chance at life and the first chance of true love.