Picking up the threads of the compelling Daisy Chain War, this second volume tracks nine-year-old John, Lizzie Doyle's nephew, who has come to live in Ireland with his grandparents, but is longing for the father he has never met, and who has been missing in action for a decade.

But life in the Doyles' lively Dublin house slowly brings John out of himself, especially when he befriends tough urchin Anthony Quinn and his sister Patsy, whose parents rent the downstairs flat...Meanwhile, Lizzie is pursuing a career in nursing - while still holding a flame for her childhood sweetheart, Pete. And Vicky, Lizzie's fiesty English cousin, is in America, studying hard to be a doctor, trying to mend her relationship with her estranged father...