
Together, the three of them begin to heal, and, at last, Annie learns that she can love without losing herself.

In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was-the woman she is now desperate to become again. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman.

A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale "A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story."-Diana Gabaldon Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad.
