Kenneth Gwynne was five years old when his father left for war and his mother died of a broken heart. Raised by grandparents who poured poison into his ears about Rachel Carter, the woman who stole his father away, Kenneth grew up believing he knew exactly who to blame for every lost piece of his childhood. Now an adult, he journeys to Indiana to claim what is rightfully his, expecting nothing more than to confront the enemy of his family. Instead, he meets Viola Gwyn, and everything he thought he knew crumbles. She is Rachel's daughter, yes. She is also his half-sister, bound to him by the same philandering father who destroyed Kenneth's family and built another. Yet against all logic and inherited rage, something ignites between them. This is a novel about the wounds we inherit and whether we have the courage to stop bleeding for them. It asks whether love can survive when families are built on betrayal, and whether two people bound by blood can choose each other anyway.
