Forgiveness is one thing, but who really forgets?Ivy Griffith has been released from jail after serving time for covering up the strangulation death of a high school classmate ten years earlier. Shes paid her debt to society. Kicked her drug habit. Shes making a fresh start.Problem is, everyone in her hometown of Jacobs Ear, Colorado, knows what she did. And her seven-year-old son, Montana, wont stop probing about the father he has never metthe man Ivy was too stoned to even remember. Plagued by her own shame and her little boys cries for male affirmation, Ivy is thrilled when Rue Kessler takes an interest in Montana and her. Maybe, just maybe, hes the answer to prayer shes been waiting for.But Rue has a shadow hanging over his past and is suspected in a rash of bizarre, brutal beatings. He denies any involvement, and Ivy believes himuntil she discovers he and Montana have kept a secret from her. At a loss for what to believe or where to turn, Ivys on the verge of despair and wonders if even God has given up on her. Or is something bigger at play heresomething being orchestrated outside of her control thats about to bring down the curtain on everything including her past?From the Trade Paperback edition.