On Peconic Bay on Long Island a child flounders on a sail boat, a daring young girl rescues her. This event will color what happens next in Alix Ehlers's engaging and powerful novel of family life, the love between mothers and daughters, and a single mom's struggle to keep her child. Ginny Ford's family seems to have it all while Charlene Lutz has had to fight all her life and her love for her daughter Dorie leads her to make a terrible decision, a decision that threatens not only to destroy Charlene but Ginny Ford's family as well.