Since losing his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, Holton has been shut off from the world, making driftwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Then twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When Holton discovers Libby is actually Adele's illegitimate daughter, his life is turned upside down: the wife he'd given saint status to wasn't the woman he thought he knew. Holton and Libby form an unlikely bond to learn the truth about Adele, themselves, and each other.