First published 2013
Tully Hart built her life on big dreams and an unbreakable friendship with Kate Ryan that began on Firefly Lane over thirty years ago. When Kate dies, Tully makes a deathbed promise to care for Kate's children, but she knows nothing about motherhood or family. Kate's sixteen-year-old daughter Marah drowns in grief while her father Johnny tries to hold everyone together. Marah finds solace only when she falls in love with a young man who draws her into his dangerous world. Meanwhile, Dorothy Hart, the mother who abandoned Tully repeatedly as a child, returns when Tully needs her most. Dorothy must reveal the ugly secrets of her past to become the mother Tully needs. A single tragic choice and a midnight phone call will bring these three women together on a journey of redemption. Each has lost her way, and they will need each other to transform their lives.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Firefly Lane
Period: 30 Years Ago
400 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press