A priest changes the lives of an actress running from her past and a man hiding from his future in this heartfelt novel about loss and redemption. When someone wants to be lost, a home tucked among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast is a good place to live. Take a couple decent boats and a deep knowledge of fishing, and Sunday can get by without ever having to talk to another soul. It's a nice enough existence, until the one person who ties Sunday to the world of the living asks him for help. Father Steady Capri knows quite a bit about helping others. But he is afraid Katie Quinn's problems may be beyond his abilities. Katie is a world-famous actress with an all too familiar story. Fame seems to have driven her to self-destruct. Steady knows the true cause of her desire to end her life is buried too deeply for him to reach. But there is one person who still may be able to save her from herself: Sunday. He will show her an alternate escape, a way to write a new life, but Katie still must confront her past before she can find peace. Ultimately, Sunday will need to leave his secluded home and sacrifice the serenity he's found to help her.

チャールズ・マーティンが描くのは、喪失という荒波に呑まれた魂が再生へと向かうための、痛切なまでの自己犠牲と愛の軌跡です。逃避を安息と履き違えていた者たちが、フロリダの自然の中で互いの傷に触れ合う過程は、単なる癒やしを超え、自らの人生を書き換えるための峻烈な通過儀礼として読者の心に迫ります。 著者の卓越した筆致は、隠遁者の静寂と名声の狂騒という対極的な孤独を鮮やかに浮き彫りにし、真の自由とは過去を消し去ることではなく、新たな物語を綴る勇気にあることを提示します。暗闇の中で光を希求するすべての人に捧げられた、魂を震わせる至高の救済の物語であり、読み終えた後には人生の白紙を愛おしむ情熱が湧き上がるはずです。