There were once three beautiful sisters, the toasts of wartime London. One stayed single, one married for money, and one married for love...Thirty-five years on, age and enmity have driven Primrose, Juaua and Isobel apart, but the past is waiting to reclaim them and when their illusions about themselves and each other die, nothing can protect them from guilt-laden memory of their lost step-sister, Lily-Josephine. Like Snowdrop in the fairy tale, Lily-Josephine was a disinherited Princess, hiding in the greenwood shade from the jealous stepmother who wanted to destroy her. Now, she is long gone. If only she could be forgotten...