Charlotte thought she knew her mother. As a highly regarded, country doctor in the small farming community of Marion, Missouri, Dr. Sylvie Day was successful, respected, and responsible for delivering nearly half the population of Marion. She was a single mother, forced to raise her daughter alone after her husband’s tragic and sudden death. But Sylvie wasn’t merely a devoted mother. She was a woman with secrets – Secrets and lies that threaten to destroy Charlotte’s memory of her mother.

On the day of Sylvie’s funeral, Charlotte comes face to face with Harold Klein, the one person in Marion her mother loathed and shunned. It is during this fateful meeting that Charlotte learns of the lies and betrayal that were always lurking in the shadows of her childhood. Now, Charlotte is forced to confront not only her mother’s past, but her own failures as a daughter, learning to forgive herself, while accepting her mother for the woman she really was.