What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? . . .
This is the question that haunts the three survivors of a terrible boating accident off the coast of Maine that claimed the lives of nine other people.
Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Pigeonholed by her controlling family and increasingly distant husband as 'loyal' and 'obedient', she realizes in the aftermath of her brush with death that there is more to her than she ever imagined.
Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobster man who helped save her life, and to Kim, a twenty-one-year-old whose role in the accident and subsequent muteness are a mystery, Julia begins to explore the unique possibilities offered by the quiet island of Big Sawyer, Maine. With each passing moment, each new discovery, she grows more sure that after coming face-to-face with death, she must have more from life.
Resolving to make things right for the future and drawing on an inner strength she never knew she possessed, Julia fearlessly embraces uncertainties in a way she couldn't have imagined only a few weeks ago.
