From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Time Gone, a story of a Southern family’s buried history-now in trade paperback.

Two years after the death of her husband, Merritt Heyward receives unexpected news-Cal’s family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by his reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt.

In Beaufort, the secrets of Cal’s unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This unknown legacy, now Merritt’s, will change and define her as she navigates her new life-a life complicated by the arrival of her too young stepmother and ten-year-old stepbrother.

Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Low Country.