New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry portrays a woman burdened by the past--and the choices she must face to break free of it--in this emotional, engaging novel. Nine months after her fathers death, Catherine Leary still hasnt fulfilled his last wish: that she scatter his ashes in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro is the last place Catherine wants to see again. But on the evening of her thirtieth birthday, her fathers young colleague--whom she once dated--pays a visit... Hoping to stop Forrest Anderson from exposing her familys secrets, she travels to her once-beloved Lowcountry town and embarks on a poignant trip into the past...a journey that might lead her into a new life of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery.