Maeve Corrigan came back for a weekend to sign away her half of the family hardware shop. Her mother's will had other ideas: one full year running it, or the sale cannot proceed. Daniel Byrne has kept the place open through eighteen months of illness and has every right to resent her arrival. And somewhere in the account book, in her mother's handwriting, is the reason the shop has been losing money for a decade — and the names of half the village who are still on the list.