Sarah Mere dreams to escape and remember—to escape the present and reclaim the past. Dreaming, she begins by returning to the French estate in the country where her future once seemed so certain, before that day in September changed everything.

Even so, she believes friendship and love may yet offer the way to happiness, and possibly even salvation. Her good friend Gitangeli facilitates the transition, and despite residual suspicion, Mere resumes her life's journey, slowly entrusting the present and future to a man she would never have chosen to approach, much less love, before that day in September forced her to confront every bias and fear.

Though she becomes again vulnerable and open to life's possibilities, what does she really know; whom can she trust? The world remains a dangerous enigma, the future uncertain. Is love worth risking all?