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Until his son was kidnapped and murdered, George Gates was a globe-trotting travel writer. Now he writes boring articles by day and broods at night.

A floundering middle-aged historian reluctantly sits down with the woman he suspects was responsible for his father's murder decades before.

In 1937 a woman appears in Port Alma, a small sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there.

When former Confederate officer Colonel French returns to his North Carolina hometown after building his fortune in the North, he is a new man.