Home is the place where they have to take you in. But Kate Randsome finds out the hard way that that isn’t always true. Betrayed by family and friends, Kate fights to find a place for herself in the only town she’s ever known. Turning to strangers for the love and respect she’s lost, Kate finds herself moving from place to place; sometimes finding a shred of happiness and sometimes in even deeper trouble. On the eve of her death, she determines that her granddaughter will know the true story of her life. She writes a manuscript which she gives to her son and extracts his promise that he’ll give it to his daughter when she’s an adult. But will her son keep that promise?