Many years ago, Iris Greenfeder's mother disappeared. They were living atHotel Equinox where Iris's father was the manager and where her motherwrote delicate, powerful fantasies. Then one day, she took a train andnever returned. She was found dead in a hotel fire in Brooklyn, registeredas another man's wife. Returning to Hotel Equinox, Iris needs to find thetruth about her mother; there are some clues in her writing, and others inthe memories of those who knew her. Kay Greenfeder, it seems, was a womenwithout a past. But as Iris begins to untangle the secrets of yearsbefore, she realises that the past was very different to what she hadbelieved, and much more dangerous...