After putting her life on hold for years to raise her younger stepsiblings following their parents’ deaths, freelance photographer Caroline Rogers has only one more year before she is free to leave her small Kentucky hometown and explore the world. But when psychiatrist Mick Larsen gives up his Chicago practice, buys Caroline’s old family far, and returns home to put his past behind him, Caroline is torn between a man she is coming to love and her cherished dreams. A strong but troubled heroine and a hero who must learn to forgive himself find healing an love in an emotionally rich, multilayerd story that explores issues of grief, guild, mental instability, and family duty with consummate skill and perceptiveness.