It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets. Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there. But before she goes, she will irrevocably alter the lives of two brothers -- leaving one dead, and the other perched on the edge of madness.There is much that Dora March has hidden.But in Port Alma, Maine, there are other secrets, too....From the Paperback edition.