"Anna Delaney, a smart, loving woman whose life is shattered when her car skids on ice and her 11-year-old son is killed. Reeling from this tragic loss and bruised by the effects of a now-defunct marriage, Anna must create a new life without dishonoring the old. Her good friends, her backbreaking work on an Ohio farm, and her attentions to her father--who is mourning the loss of his wife, Anna's mother--cannot fill the great gap left by her son. And Anna's neurotic ex-husband, the boy's father, is both a constant unpleasant reminder of the past and a threat to Anna's future happiness. Anna's first tentative steps toward romantic passion are mirrored by her father's budding affair with a much younger woman. Father and daughter discover in each other and in their lovers newfound emotional support. But love is not the only passion Anna must confront: The dangerous ex-husband forces her to take an uncomfortable stand for the right to her own memory of her son. In the book's exciting climax, Anna narrowly avoids a violent confrontation and attains a victory that is both thoroughly satisfying and completely believable."

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