1923, Provence, France. In the middle of a magical summer, artist Emma Temple gazes into fields of lavender, as her dearest friend Patrick Adams paints her portrait. Their passionate friendship is just beginning, and Emma is blissfully happy. Whatever is to come, she will have this picture as a reminder of their true love for each other. But Emma is hiding a secret that she fears may tear them apart… 1980, London, England. On an ordinary morning, an elderly Emma opens her newspaper to find a devastating story claiming that Patrick’s painting of her is a worthless fake. Emma is stunned and shocked—surely this cannot be true? Emma has staked her granddaughter’s future on the portrait—now the bank is threatening to recall the loan. In an instant, her world is overturned as the truths she built her life on start to crumble beneath her. Patrick was the one soul on earth who knew her deepest secret. To prove the painting is truly authentic, Emma will have to reveal the truth and it may tear her apart…