Madame Burova--beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant--is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of tarot cards have seen lovers and liars, angels and devils, dreamers and fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, Madame Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to do: fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them. In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world, and then a sudden and unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail, one that leads to Brighton and the pier, directly to Madame Burova's door.-- Back cover.