The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels
explores a Southern family's buried history, which will change the life
of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret.
Two years after the death of her husband, Merritt Heyward receives
unexpected news--Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina,
bequeathed by his reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt.
In Beaufort, the secrets of Cal's unspoken-of past reside among the
pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This
unknown legacy, now Merritt's, will change and define her as she
navigates her new life--a life complicated by the arrival of her too
young stepmother and ten-year-old half brother.
Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the
Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she
needs in the salt air of the Lowcountry.