When all the noise has gone silent, all that is left is her song. The southern town of Saisons lies at the crossroads between North and South, progressive and genteel antebellum life. Between East and West, between history and heritage, and new frontiers. Downton Abbey meets Gone With the Wind. It's 1912, in a world where slavery is dying and women's rights are rising, and four young women who once shared a bond-and experienced a tragedy-question their own truths. Pearl had lived under the impossible taskmaster of perfection. Nothing she does or ever did pleased her mother. And nothing she ever did could disappoint her father. Caught up in the mystery of her friend's curious-and secretive-return, Pearl wrestles with her own decisions, and flees lest her own secrets are exposed.