Smoke drifted over the trees from various cottage fireplaces. Across the valley a farmer burned stubble. I watched an early rising half-moon, turned my head back and suddenly he was there - as if I'd conjured him up - walking along the shoreline. 'You're Odella McLean,' he said.

Odella is haunted by family secrets. Before she was born, her mother was the only survivor when a car full of teenagers plunged through ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Years later, when her mother runs off with a man, Odella is left to hold her fragile family together. Then she meets Jimmy Tomasson, whose prophetic dreams of flying fish have led him to her. In the heat and tenderness of their deepening feelings, Odella starts to unravel the guilty secrets that have ensnared them all.

A stunning novel about trusting your heart, and about the lies, bad choices and secret suffering that haunts those who don't.