"Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay--and a wife frustrated by his enertia. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father--a mystery that his wife insits he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother's former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the bittersweet decade when their families were joined. Reluctandtly breaking a long-ago promise, Jasper connects Kit with Lucinda and Zeke Burns, who know the answer he's looking for."--Cover