Dr. Margo Devaull came to Dominic Zanelli's mountain retreat confident that she could help this Vietnam veteran overcome the torment that kept him apart from the world. But her training as a psychologist had not prepared her for the tragic, explosive contradictions brewing inside him. For here was a sensitive artist who could be gentle - and a man whose eyes flashed with violence and pain when he told her to leave and never come back. Yet Margo did come back, slowly gain his trust, and awaken the sleeping needs of his heart. Only by reliving her own wounded past and helping Zane confront a terrible memory from the war could she set them both free - and save their last chance for love.

本作の核心は、魂の深淵に触れる救済の物語にあります。傷付いた退役軍人ドミニクと、心理学者マーゴ。二人の間に横たわるのは、単なる愛を超えた、互いの絶望を分かち合う魂の共鳴です。サンドラ・リースミスは、芸術家の繊細さと戦禍の狂暴さが同居するドミニクの複雑な内面を、鮮烈な筆致で描き出しています。 特筆すべきは、癒やす側のマーゴもまた自らの古傷と対峙し、共に再生していく鏡像のような構成です。拒絶と信頼の間で揺れ動きながら光を見出す過程は、読者に強烈なカタルシスをもたらします。愛とは過去を乗り越え、共に生き直すための「奇跡」なのだと、本作は震えるような情熱で語りかけてくるのです。