The Thread That Binds Us — Joan Fallon

Have you ever had a secret that you cannot tell anyone - even your closest friend? Susan's childhood was full of secrets -- ‘Don't tell anyone,' was her mother's favourite phrase. So when she discovers that her father had an illegitimate child called Michael, she instinctively knows she can't tell anyone. But Susan isn't a child anymore -- she is a middle-aged woman who is keeping secrets from her husband in her search to find her half-brother. The need to know more about Michael becomes an obsession and she soon finds herself enmeshed in a web of lies and deceit as she tries to track him down. When she and Michael finally meet, Susan is faced with a dilemma -- she can walk away and forget about him or she can tell her family and face the consequences.