For both Zane and Darby their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now decades later they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Inside a pristine home in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains Zane Bigelow has learned to keep secrets. Strangers see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife proud of their children. Only Zane and his sister know the terrible truth. Dominated by his father's rages-and his mother's complicity-Zane fears for his and little Britt's lives. Still he maintains the insidious lie that all is fine while scribbling his real thoughts in a secret journal he must carefully hide away.