From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves Growing up the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams her first loveand first heartbreak Years later Thayer marries Aengus an Irish professor and they move into her deceased grandmothers house in Atlanta only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a car accident There Aengus and Thayer lead quiet and happy lives until Aengus is invited up to the camp to tell old Irish tales to the campers As Aengus spends less time at home and becomes more distant Thayer must confront dark secrets-about her mother her first love and most devastating of all her husband.
