Two authors find themselves drawn into a terrifying nightmare as they are confronted by the ghosts of their dead children.

Lily Maynard is a seventy-two-year-old author who, when stricken with Parkinson's Disease, moves in with her son and daughter-in-law.

The single day that Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley spend together in 1988, the day after college graduation in Edinburgh, makes a distinct impression on each of them and a relationship forms only after they part ways and are reunited once a year on the same day for twenty years.

American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.

Alba, having spent time in and out of the Abenaki Mental Hospital for ten years trying to control her manic depression, becomes romantically involved with Oscar, a drug addict in denial, and together they try to right the wrong done to Mary, a woman committed by her husband seventy years earlier and who left letters to her children in the pages of the hospital's library books.