On the day of her father's memorial, Hannah MacAllister hears of her sister's attempted suicide. Still shaken by the funeral, she must travel to Los Angeles to deal with Rebecca's condition. What she finds is Rebecca on life support, not expected to survive. Once a promising actress, her life and career had been in slow decline for years. The only clue to Rebecca's desperate act is a cryptic message: Everything would have been fine if not for Little Bear Creek! The place her father and his family escaped life as dirt-poor sharecroppers. In her search, Hannah discovers the truth hidden from her and her siblings by a father hell-bent on denying his own tumultuous past.