Forgiveness is one thing, but who really forgets?
Ivy Griffith has been released from jail after serving time for covering up the strangulation death of a high school classmate ten years earlier. Sheโs paid her debt to society. Kicked her drug habit. Sheโs making a fresh start.
Problem is, everyone in her hometown of Jacobโs Ear, Colorado, knows what she did. And her seven-year-old son, Montana, wonโt stop probing about the father he has never metโthe man Ivy was too stoned to even remember.
Plagued by her own shame and her little boyโs cries for male affirmation, Ivy is thrilled when Rue Kessler takes an interest in Montana and her. Maybe, just maybe, heโs the answer to prayer sheโs been waiting for.
But Rue has a shadow hanging over his past and is suspected in a rash of bizarre, brutal beatings. He denies any involvement, and Ivy believes himโuntil she discovers he and Montana have kept a secret from her.
At a loss for what to believe or where to turn, Ivyโs on the verge of despair and wonders if even God has given up on her. Or is something bigger at play hereโsomething being orchestrated outside of her control thatโs about to bring down the curtain on everything including her past?