Elizabeth Brundage

Two young drifters, Nate and Cat—bottomed out on drugs and living on the margins of San Francisco—are forced by stress and circumstance to give up their infant daughter. Seventeen years later, Nate comes to the idyllic setting of the Berkshires to teach at the elite private Pioneer School—as his daughter’s teacher.
Willa Golding, ensconced in a magnificent country home with her parents, has never worried much about being...