When Charlie Tanner loses her life partner, she also loses her voice. Fleeing the cult-like agricultural community in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia that she's called home for two decades, she starts over in Vermont, processing her grief in the garden. There, she realizes how toxic her twenty years with James Grace—and his secrets—really were. Charlie reconnects with her estranged family and eventually finds friends and a new love, but her past haunts her, even to the point of threatening her life. Charlie's race to break free brings out an inner confidence she never knew she had. Evoking the unlikely romance of the Netflix series Nobody Wants This and the intrigue and passion of Lucy Score's Forever Never, I Love You, Charlie Tanner is a steamy story of second chances, midlife love and starting over with a whiff of intrigue and surprising twists that'll keep you turning pages.