Publisher's Synopsis
When her missing spouse reappears, reveals himself to her, and takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, Hester, her daughter, her disguised husband, and her clandestine lover are forced to abide in close quarters-leading quiet, anguished lives. But the secrets eat away at their keepers, and only the most resolute, the most spiritual-rather than the merely religious-will survive the fall-out from the affair's exposure.