Amidst the clamor of confusion, can she hear the whisper of her memories? 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. Simone Dubois' life was unraveling. All she had known and held dear was gone from her. At ten, all she wanted was to escape beneath the black waters of the Edisto River. She couldn't know her whole life would be stolen from her.

When she returns to Saisons sixteen years later, she has no memory of ever having been there. Not even that it was her birthplace. Enlisting the help of her childhood friend, Mercedes-whose name stayed with her, if in shadowy dreams only-Simone encounters misty memories, and stirs up more mystery than she started with.