Retired professor Noah Selvaggio is packing for a long-overdue trip to his childhood home in France when he receives an unexpected phone call: Eleven-year-old Michael, a great-nephew he's never met, needs a temporary guardian. The boy is sullen and foul-mouthed—but he is family, and alone in the world by no fault of his own. Noah agrees to take Michael to France, where the unlikely pair uncover a startling family secret…and forge a tentative bond that just may save them both in this warmhearted novel about family and forgiveness.