Nine months after Catherine Leary's father, a literature professor,
passed away, she still has not fulfilled his final 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 father's young colleague--whom she once dated--pays a
visit....
Forrest Anderson offers a challenge from Catherine's father: three
probing questions that he had planned to put inside a birthday letter to
his daughter. But it's the news that Forrest plans to memorialize her
father in an article that includes the family's time in Seaboro--and the
surprising revelation that her father visited there in recent
years--that sends Catherine reeling. Hoping to stop Forrest from
exposing her family's secrets, she agrees to accompany him 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....