New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin's breathtaking novel of love and redemption. Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami. Charlie tries to separate relationships from work. But when his choices produce devastating consequences, he sets out to right wrongs, traveling to Central America where he will meet those who have paid for his actions, including a woman and her young daughter. Will their fated encounter present Charlie with a way to seek the redemption he thought was impossible -- and free his heart to love one woman as he never knew he could?

チャールズ・マーティンが描くのは、罪過と再生の境界線に立つ魂の震えです。主人公チャーリーが知性と野心で築き上げた合理的な世界が、自らの選択が招いた悲劇によって崩落する時、読者は「真の赦し」とは何かという根源的な問いを突きつけられます。完璧な計算では埋められない心の空洞が、他者の痛みに触れることで鮮烈に浮き彫りにされる過程は圧巻です。 本作の真髄は、中米の地で繰り広げられる自己変革の旅路にあります。過去の負債を清算しようと足掻く彼の姿は、失った尊厳を取り戻すための代償がいかに大きいかを物語ります。利己的な愛を捨て、献身という名の救済を求めるその熱い渇望は、読む者の魂を浄化し、閉ざされた心を開かせる極上の感動を約束してくれるでしょう。