Nothing is sweeter than taste of freedom especially when you are a high school graduate embarking on what is sure to be the beginning of rest of your life. For Kara Churchill, her future has never looked brighter. As she teeters on the cusp of adulthood with her family enthusiastically cheering her on, the sky is the limit as she takes hold of her life and plans the path she most happily wants to take.

When a simple outing with her best friend turns into a rescue mission for a lost dog, Kara's attention innocently gets diverted from the road as they try to calm the stray and bring him to safety. As she maneuvers her parents' SUV while talking on her cell phone, she accidentally runs over a pedestrian in the crosswalk and winds up killing her. What started out as a good deed has turned into a family's greatest nightmare.

As Kara slowly withdraws from her family and becomes numb wallowing in her own guilt and pain, her mother, Leigh, tries to make amends with friends and colleagues as the town mourns the death of an innocent girl. Embarking on an unexpected but long overdue journey, Leigh puts together the pieces from her own troubled past as she desperately tries to reconnect with her daughter before it is too late. Can she help Kara survive knowing that her daughter's negligence caused the end to another's life? Will Kara ever be able to forgive herself and live the life her parents have always dreamed she would have?

THE REST OF HER LIFE is a powerful and captivating page turner that begs to ask what a family would do when forced to face the unthinkable. Moriarty's crisp writing and attention to detail make this riveting tale of forgiveness and redemption a heartbreaking and poignant masterpiece.