When the young child of Monica and Forrest Maguire is diagnosed as being autistic, it plunges the mother into an agony of uncertainty and guilt, and threatens the fragile marriage of this middle-class couple.

Suzanne Morris is a native of Houston. She lives with her family in Baytown, Texas. Her published novels include Galveston, Keeping Secrets, Skychild, and Wives and Mistresses. Her current work in progress is a two-volume novel set in England and the United States. She is also writing a film adaptation of this work.