What happens when backing out of your driveway, late for work, and the phone rings? If you’re Katherine Graeme, you answer it. But when she does, she sets in motion a catastrophic accident that pushes her into a year-long journey to discover meaning in tragedy.

 

That fateful morning culminated in the death of Katherine’s only child, 5-year-old Emma. Plagued with guilt and unable to accept that she caused Emma’s death, Katherine runs, or rather drives west.  When her car breaks down on a Navajo reservation in the high desert of New Mexico, Katherine abandons it and is rescued by a rainmaker named Ezekiel Raine. The people in the nearby nameless town call him Eze. Easy. Katherine dubs herself Kat and for the next year she attempts to reinvent herself, to distance herself from Emma’s death, to forget where she came from and what she did. But in every hit of hallucinatory peyote, she sees the ghost of Emma; in every bottle of bourbon, she sees herself killing her own daughter. And in the Navajo healing ceremonies and joyous celebrations of nature, she sees a possible way forward but only if she fully embraces her role in Emma’s death. She resists, but when one of the town’s children goes missing in a snow storm, Kat realizes she has the chance to redeem herself by rescuing another’s child even though she couldn’t save her own.