Living with Untold Secrets

Who is Scarlett Miller? Seventeen-year-old Scarlett has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? She doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? Why is Dane so mysterious and hypnotic? What is Ethan's disability? Why does she feel so empty? Why has her family abruptly moved from Boston to California, leaving all of her personal belongings behind? Why does her grandmother react to her with such antipathy? And why can Scarlett recite whole passages of Thoreau's Walden, but remember next to nothing of her own past? The memories will come slowly and steadily, they told her. But when they come, they come with questions. Questions no one is willing to answer.