From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts foreverWhats in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her life. With little comprehension of the life-long consequences of her actions, she trades her own future happiness to protect the man shes loved since kindergarten, David Montgomery.With an ocean separating them, Carly builds a life for herself without David. Shes the mother of three, lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a man who comes home every night—even if most of those nights he drinks too much. What more could she want?Her answer arrives on a cold fall day when David shows up at her door.