One summer, 11-year-old Daria finds an abandoned newborn on the beach.
Piece by piece, the mystery of summer\'s Child is being exposed, a mystery that no one involved--not Shelly, Daria, not even Rory--is prepared to face..
The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as closely guarded secrets and the sins of that long-ago summer begin to surface.
But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria\'s childhood and now a television producer, returns at Shelly\'s request to do a story about the circumstances surrounding her birth, something precarious shifts in the small town of Kill Devil Hills.
Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect.
But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria.
When the infant\'s identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria\'s loving family.
Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea--an abandoned newborn baby.
Twenty years later, a friend of Daria\'s returns to town and starts nosing into the puzzle of Shelly\'s birth.
When no one claims her, Shelly is adopted into Daria\'s loving family.
One summer, 11-year-old Daria finds an abandoned newborn on the beach
