The Gifts We Keep

About this book

In The Gifts We Keep dangerous secrets past tragedies and a violent obsession are forced to the surface when Emerson and her estranged family agree to care for a ten-year-old Native-Alaskan girl and complete stranger Addie in the wake of Addies single mother attempting suicide. Emerson has buried her emotions since her husbands suicide a decade past maintaining a cold and aloof exterior. Meanwhile her younger sister Tillie avoids her own questions about the accident which left her in a wheelchair. Their mother Eve flits through life as though nothing is important. And the handsome neighbor Henry maintains a carefree attitude while guilt and secrets eat away at him. If these five can face their true selves each other and their past they just might find a way forward to a life filled with love and happiness.