Ace Sinclair has one eye on a hurricane churning up from the south and the other on his old high school sweetheart, J\'nelle Reade, whom he has invited, on impulse, to spend a weekend with him at his Outer Banks beach house.
They soon discover that the past is still with them more than they know, and they are pulled into a haunting search among old memories of betrayals, mistakes and missed chances for the ill.
Now in their seventies, both widowed, Ace and J\'nelle expect to relive old memories.
Ace Sinclair has one eye on a hurricane churning up from the south and the other on his old high school sweetheart, J\'nelle Reade, whom he has invited, on impulse, to spend a weekend with him at his Outer Banks beach house