Includes reading group guide.

The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mothers old farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and spinning stories into the night. But that was beforewhen tragedy was something that happened to other families. Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their younger daughter, Frieda has struggled emotionally and financially. Bella, now seventeen, is withdrawn and wary, and Frieda fears losing her too. At her mothers urging, Frieda decides to return to Yorktide with Bella for the summer. Bella gets a job in a local shop, and little by little edges her way back into the world. But its the unexpected connections they makewith a former schoolmate, a troubled teenage girl, and Friedas estranged fatherthat will spur them to find healing amid bittersweet memories, and discover if their bond is strong enough to guide them back to hope once more.