Charlie Blakeman is living in New York, on Washington Square, struggling
to write his second novel and floundering, when his college love, Sophie
Wilder, returns to his life. Sophie, too, is struggling, though Charlie
isn't sure why. They've spoken only rarely since falling out a decade
before. Now Sophie begins to tell Charlie the story of her life since
then, particularly the days she spent taking care of a dying man with
his own terrible past and the difficult decision he presented her with.
When Sophie once again abruptly disappears, Charlie sets out to discover
what happened to Sophie Wilder.