At forty-two, Heather Finch has cared for and buried her husband after strokes and brain injury; now she embarks on a writing retreat in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. When Heather believes her small writer' s cottage is haunted, she must face her past and present fears real or imagined that populate her mind.

Chapters are set three years before juxtaposed with ones set in present day. The " Remember" chapters recount her husband Marc' s stroke, the three years of caretaking she shares with her teenage children, and the end-of-life decisions leading to Marc' s death.