A young, well-known writer, Marcus Goldman, arrives at his new home in Florida—spacious, with panoramic windows, right by a lake—to work on a new novel in calm and quiet. One stormy night, a large kind-hearted dog comes to him on the terrace, and Goldman decides to shelter it. In the morning, he goes looking for the owner. Much to his surprise, he learns that the dog belongs… to Alexandra Neville—the girl he had been in love with for many years, now famous across America as a singer with millions of fans. A chance meeting revives a whole heap of memories in Marcus: how even as a teenager he spent all holidays at his uncle Sol Baltimore’s house together with his two beloved cousins and Alexandra, whom all three boys had loved at the same time. But among these peaceful memories hides a terrible secret, a tragedy Marcus had spent so many years trying to forget…