17 year old Charlie Beaumont left home in New York for a fashion career in London. She meets Nate and falls in love. Over the decade she’s been away her older sister Bella sent her monthly emails telling her about the family happenings. How her and Dan’s daughters are triving, how excited their parents are to sail around the world after father Henry retires. The Ad Agency they started is going so well.
One day Charlie receives a phone call from her father with news that Bella and Dan had been killed in car crash.
When Charlie returns home for the funerals she sees Bella had lied to her. Her mother was now a drunk, her father a broken man, her nieces young Ellie withdrawn and 15 year old Tiffany such attitude. Then she discovers that Bella and Dan have made her guardian of their daughters. Charlie has returned home to a shattered family she must put back together plus…… dead sister Bella appears and only Charlie can see her.