tten her shit together, and she doesn't depend on anyone-not since she gave birth at 19 and her high school sweetheart died a year later, leaving her to raise her daughter alone in a new, cut-throat city.

Now, at 45, with a successful writing career and the comfort, fame, and relative wealth to go with it, Caroline has finally found peace, or something like it.

But one phone call on a lazy Saturday morning plunges her back into the deep ocean of sorrow she fought to escape, forcing her to face the ghosts of her past and finally decide, once and for all, if she will make peace with the waves.