In the idyllic ski resort of Breckenridge there's trouble in paradise for Sarah St John Her twenty-two year old son Cully has been killed in an avalanche & she is trying to pick up the pieces of her life All Sarah wants is to be left alone in her grief but everyone seems to want something from her Her father a retiree who has become addicted to the shopping channel has moved into her basement Her best friend is juggling a messy divorce & a new found habit of smoking pot & then there's Cully's father whose sudden reemergence in Sarah's life stirs a cauldron of emotions Just as Sarah is ready to face the world a girl called Kit appears on her doorstep & Sarah is confronted with the hardest decision yet Told in Kaui Hart Hemmings' unsentimental & refreshingly wry style this is a novel about what we will risk to keep our loved ones close
- a novel full of hope humour & love