Two months ago, Roxie Whitson left a tragedy of her making behind in Derry, Tennessee and has spent her summer in a sinner's purgatoryguilt, punishment, and the path to atonement.
Through the journal she's kept, and her confessions in counseling, Roxie is now ready to end her self-exile from Derry.
Cole, the boy she all but adopted, is turning twenty-one and the celebration is calling her back. She's eager to see him again, but that means seeing Caleb, too; the man she loves, who once loved her but, through Roxie's mistake, no longer remembers. The long weekend in Derry ends without Caleb recalling their history, but when she sends him the journal, his own quest for answers begins.