Set in the fictional Two Rivers, Vermont, Greenwood
introduces Harper Montgomery, a man who is living a life
overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his
wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his
world to working at the local railroad and raising his
daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked
with sorrow over the loss of his lifelong love and plagued
by his role in the brutal, long ago crime, he wants only to
make amends for his past mistakes.
Then one fall day, a
train derails in Two Rivers, and amid the wreckage Harper
finds an unexpected chance at atonement. One of the
survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched
eyes and skin the color of blackberries, needs a place to
stay. Though filled with misgivings, Harper offers to take
Maggie in, but it isn't long before he begins to suspect
that Maggie's appearance in Two Rivers is not the simple
case of happenstance it first appeared to be.
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