"One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words save her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden. But how could Nathaniel Hawthorne have captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? As a girl, Mia fell in love with a book. Now, as a young woman, she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time. But what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never write The Scarlet Letter? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die?"--Cover.