"e;Fiercely beautiful... cracks open the darkness and pain of sexual assault to reveal light, hope and a sense of freedom."e; Samantha Clark, author of The ClearingOn a remote Mediterranean island, a woman begins to unearth a long-buried memory. As migrating birds sweep across the sky and marine archaeologists dive into dark waters to recover the remnants of an ancient shipwreck, she, too, descends into her past-retracing an event that once threatened to break her.But this time, she is neither afraid nor alone. The island's treeless slopes and its vast horizons of sea and sky become a refuge where she can finally breathe. And the birds, in their tireless passage from one world to another, reveal a simple truth: return is always possible-if she can find the courage to begin.