Undone by motherhood, judged by her husband, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees with her baby in the middle of the night for the one place on earth that s been her refuge: her grandmother s lakehouse in northern Wisconsin. Hoping to reconnect with a former, healthier self, she instead faces a confused and dying grandmother, her ever-present nurse who seems bent on thwarting each of Rachel s desires, and a changed ex-boyfriend her first and most passionate love. As a constant rain threatens the nearby dam, Rachel struggles to discern what s happened to the discern what s happened to the past, who she s become, and what kind of a life she will make for herself now one that clings to ghosts or opens bravely to a wild new geography.
