<p><strong>24 Merrion Square. The house stands empty, the old stone steps overgrown with thorny rose bushes. But Mary Kate feels a deep connection to the neglected, silent rooms. Could this be the place to help her heal?</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Dublin 1952.</strong> When Mary Kate Ryan receives a surprise inheritance from the woman who abandoned her as a tiny baby, she''s stunned. All her life, she has longed to know why her mother disappeared, and now she''s devastated to realise that every lonely night she spent without a home or family of her own, her mother knew exactly where she was.</p><p> </p><p>Mary Kate is about to refuse the money when she sees a beautiful, deserted house for sale and something sparks in her heart. She will reawaken it, as the Dublin Boarding House for Single Ladies, and provide a shelter for others as lost and alone as her. Can she help the two young girls left at the local orphanage, desperate for a home of their own? Or the pregnant teenag