The final volume in Elisabeth Ogilvie's series of Bennett's Island novels rejoins Joanna Sorensen's family during the Vietnam era.
It is a time when Joanna, her husband, Nils, and several of her brothers have settled and raised their families on remote Bennett's Island, struggling to retain their rugged, independent life earning their keep from the sea.
It is also a time when new faces appear on the island: two young men descended from island families arrive hoping to shed the traces of past mistakes. The conflicts that these newcomers bring to the close-knit island force Joanna and the other islanders to wrestle with difficult questions of family loyalty, ethics, and the good of the community.
