Is blood always thicker than water?

Shelley Fitzgibbon has it all – three beautiful children, a charismatic, successful husband and a life of her dreams. Then her husband Charlie disappears, leaving behind more than just a business empire in crisis . . . The luxurious family home is sold, and while Shelley's daughters Olivia and Emma come to terms with being broke, eleven-year-old Mac refuses to talk about what happened. When Charlie's estranged mother Vera opens her door to the broken family, secrets from the past begin to emerge that reveal that there's more to the Fitzgibbons than meets the eye. As Shelley struggles to keep her family together, she begins to wonder if she ever knew the man she married . . . And six thousand miles away Charlie is wrestling with life-changing decisions of his own. Is blood always thicker than water? Maybe Charlie's family are simply better off without him.