Rachel Blanchard

A couple on the verge of a nasty divorce attempts to sell their empty love nest and move on with their lives, separately. Several days after a successful open house, they are horrified to discover that a potential buyer didn't leave their home. While Alice is being held captive in the basement, the unannounced house guest moves in upstairs.

Centers around a three-way romantic relationship involving a loving suburban married couple and another woman.

Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son Dominic has yet to return from the war. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables and being adopted by the Cuthberts. Still haunted by her early childhood, the impact of this difficult period has a far-reaching effect on this older woman, once she discovers the truth about her real parents. She begins a delicate search for her birth father. It is a journey through a past fraught with danger, uncertainty, heartache and joy. In the parade of humanity Anne encounters she also faces the root of her desire to find true "kindred spirits", an inspired imagination and the impetus to use her talents as a writer to inspire others.