Former high school sweethearts Greg and Patty Goodman are happily married with two charming daughters. They're comfortable in their well kept home, living the ideal life with neighborhood barbecues, weekly golf games, and hours in the garden. But in a flash of lightning, one trick of nature, their world crumbles, and Patty and Greg must reassess the assumptions they hold about themselves and their relationships. With the same "crisp, clean writing" and "compassionately drawn characters" (The New York Times Book Review) of her previous novel, The Hunger Moon, Matson deftly provides and intimate look at marriage, parenthood, and the nature of trust and family.