An unlikely friendship between a septuagenarian and a younger woman
becomes a story of broken trust, lost love, and the unexpected blooming
of hope against the longest odds.
You trying to kill yourself, or are you just stupid?
Marcie Malone didn't think she was either, but when she drives from
Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up
in a stranger's home, she doesn't seem to know anymore. Despondent and
heartbroken over an unexpected loss and the man she thought she could
count on, Marcie leaves him behind, along with her job and her whole
life, and finds she has nowhere to go.
Herman Flint has seen just about everything in his seventy years living
in a fading, blue-collar Florida town, but the body collapsed on the
beach outside his window is something new. The woman is clearly in some
kind of trouble and Flint wants no part of it--he's learned to live on
his own just fine, without the hassle of worrying about others. But
against his better judgment he takes Marcie in and lets her stay until
she's on her feet on the condition she keeps out of his way.
As the unlikely pair slowly copes with the damage life has wrought,
Marcie and Flint have to decide whether to face up to the past they've
each been running from, and find a way to move forward with the people
they care about most.
