A Barnes & Noble Bestseller, A New York Times Editor's Choice -- The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for their two older children, John and Ricky find themselves pretending that little has changed. Yet in the aftermath, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship surface. A dreadful secret emerges, with reverberations that reach far into their past and threaten their future. Then an unexpected visitor arrives ...