For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, keeping their relationship hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana's company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. A shattering and compulsive novel about transgression and desire, secrecy and loss. What happens when you lose something the world never knew was yours?