A mysterious letter brings Lizzy Stewart back to her childhood home, one that was written twenty-five years ago. Its a call for help from John Craig, a close childhood friend. All these years shes believed that he took his own life, but the letter tells a different story. In her search for the truth, Lizzy packs up the secrets shes clung to far too long and returns to her grandparents deserted, ramshackle farm on Central Oregons High Desert. But life on the farm challenges her emotional and physical well-being. As she attempts to pull together the remnants of her tattered life and solve the puzzle of Johns death, shes plagued by bittersweet memories and unsettling threats. And by Sam Craig, Johns older brother and her closest neighbor. Sam Craig has his own problems, all of them sparked by Lizzys return after a twenty-five year hiatus. From the moment she rises out of the dark corner in the dreary farmhouse, hes hounded by unsettling memories he's tried hard to forget and by the all too familiar hold she has on him. He wants Lizzy gone and his humdrum life back. As he tries to figure out why shes returned and convince her to let him keep his cattle on her land, he realizes that hes the only person whos not privy to the frayed web of life-altering secrets and lies lurking about. There are strange goings-on around the Stewart farm, and Sam is determined to get to the bottom of them. Soon it becomes apparent that he has a bigger problem: if Lizzy doesnt leave the farm, she just might end up dead.