From one of Americas best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WHERE THE HEART IS - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years. In 1972 windswept DeClare Oklahoma was consumed by the murder of a young mother Gaylene Harjo and the disappearance of her baby Nicky Jack. When the childs pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek everyone feared that he too had been killed although his body was never found. Nearly thirty years later Nicky Jack mysteriously returns to DeClare shocking the town and stirring up long-buried memories. But what he discovers about the night he vanished is more astonishing than he or anyone could have imagine. Piece by piece what emerges is a story of dashed hopes desperate love and a secret that still cries out for justice...and redemption.