While caring for her bedridden grandmother in Senatobia, Mississippi, Chicago journalist Hannah Williamson takes a job at a small newspaper where she discovers a series of rejected articles from the 1930s. The articles, penned by a young woman named Evelyn, are haunting accounts of first love, trauma, and surviving a mysterious shooting that left Evelyn paralyzed at the age of fourteen. The articles stir up more questions than answers, and Hannah becomes consumed by what's left unsaid. What Hannah's about to discover next is that, even after nearly a century, the truth she's been looking for still has the power to change lives--especially her own.