"[A] rich and tender story of family, home and love." โMs. Magazine
Set amid Sag Harborโs vibrant African American history, bestselling author Donna Hill weaves a stunningly rich story about finding the way home...no matter how long the journey takes.
Alessandra Fleming has spent most of her life running from her past. Her budding photography career, her life in Manhattan, all serve to distract from the secrets and guilt sheโs never been able to face. Then the call. Her estranged father is in the hospital...and Alessandra must return home to Sag Harbor, crumbling the first wall between her past and her present.
For some, coming home is a relief. For Alessandra, itโs a reminder of the family sheโs lost, of the time sheโll never regain. But the answersโthe secretsโof her family are hidden in the house, waiting for her. And the only one who may be able to help her uncover them is her fatherโs neighbor, Zach, who brings with him an attraction thatโs intense and instantaneous, yet oddly familiar.
Now Alessandra is being pulled back not only into her own complex family history, but into the richly documented lives of four extraordinary women. Generations touched by tragedy and triumph, despair and hope. And itโs in these aching echoes of the past that Alessandraโs own storyโher mistakes and her capacity to loveโwill take shape, guiding her to the life sheโs meant to live...and the extraordinary person she will become.