From the USA Today bestselling author of Fox River and Whiskey Island comes the story of a woman who has lived by everyone else's rules, a woman who must discover what she is made of when her life crumbles around her. Faith Bronson, daughter of a prominent Virginia senator and wife of a charismatic lobbyist, finds her privileged life shattered when her marriage ends abruptly. Only just beginning to face the lie she has lived, she finds sanctuary with her two children in a run-down row house in exclusive Georgetown. Passed down from generation to generation in her mother's family, it's a dwelling as forsaken and lonely as Faith herself. Yet this historic row house harbors dark secrets of its own. Secrets that have shaped her family -- and built walls around so many hearts.