Story of a photographer investigating a murder scene in New Hampshire begins to question her own life and marriage rethinking her ideas concerning trust and passion and exploring the farthest extremes of emotion.

An "affecting tale" of a romantic reunion and a midlife affair from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife ( Publishers Weekly ). Out of the blue, Siân Richards receives a letter from her first love, a boy she met at summer camp -- and she sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Callahan. After all, it's been thirty years and they are both married with families. But when they decide to meet again, an innocent correspondence...

British newlyweds Margaret and Patrick decide to spend a year living in Kenya, where photojournalist Margaret begins to realize how little she knows about her husband, but when the couple is invited on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, tragedy strikes and scars their marriage forever.

Rookie paramedic Peter Webster begins an intense affair with Sheila, a troubled young woman he pulled from a car wreck, but their love is not enough to keep them together and Peter is raising their daughter alone years later when a phone call from Sheila alters their lives.

While in prison, a former journalist tells the story of her past to an investigative reporter.

Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story.