The author of million-copy bestseller Vinegar Hill triumps with the powerful and heartbreaking story of a young man's disappearance and the shattered lives he leaves behind. Abby lives a seemingly normal childhood in a small rural community of Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam, vanishes at the age of seventeen, fleeing their father's rigid rules and the violence their mother denies. Now, thirty years old and expecting a child of her own, Abby is determined to retrace her beloved Sam's dark descent – embarking upon a journey that will test the strength of her spirit, and contradict everything she once believed about her family and herself.
