Welcome to England's beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother . . .

Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life back on track. After her fiance's unexpected death, she has returned with her young son to the small village where she grew up and is throwing herself into helping her ailing grandmother run the town's beach cafe. Then one evening, her estranged mother, Laura, unexpectedly shows up in Hartley-by-the-Sea and announces her shocking plan to stay. After twenty years away, she says she wants to focus on the future-and has no intention, it seems, of revisiting the painful past, and all that Abby struggles to forgive.

Laura Rhodes knows she has made a lot of mistakes, and many of them concern her own daughter. But how to atone for the sins of the past? How to explain what she hates to remember? Slowly, Abby and Laura start making tentative steps toward each other, only to have life become even more complicated when an unexpected tragedy occurs. Together, the two women will discover truths both sad and surprising that draw them closer to a new understanding of what it means to truly forgive someone you love.