Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat to find her husband is not home. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. As the police work through all the logical explanations--he's hurt, he's run off, he's been killed--Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever.