At 50, Claire Perry leads a charmed life. With a gorgeous pilot husband and three adult children, Claire is shocked when tragedy strikes and she discovers her husband has a second family. A family her children want to embrace. With her life in shambles, Claire struggles with the upheaval and escapes to her mountain cabin at Donner Lake and tries to pick up the pieces of her once happy world. After a distinguished career in the Marine Corps, veteran Dean Perry returns home and settles at his lakefront cabin on the family compound, the perfect place to fight his internal demons after living a lifetime in a war zone. The last person he expects to see is Claire, the woman he left behind. The woman his brother married. As Claire navigates the truth of her marriage, she must reach deep inside herself and find out if the hardest choice she's ever had to make is the right one. A novel about betrayal, family, and new beginnings.