The award-winning author of "The Memory of Water" delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness. When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched. Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piperas dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfatheras death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesnat existaor does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklaceaand a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklaceas charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930sa each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.