Publisher's Synopsis
While working as a camp counselor in the summer of 2001, Christopher Fiore, a doctoral candidate in art history, brings his young charges for a day in the country to Potter Hill, the opulent estate of the fabulously wealthy Bingham family in the western part of New Jersey. Despite the short distance, it is worlds away from his home in inner-city Newark.
The family patriarch, Avery, and his wife, Samantha, are impressed with Christopher's rapport with the children and offer him a job working with their physically impaired son Andrew as his personal trainer. The boy is clever and inquisitive, but his physical disabilities have prevented him from socially maturing or making friends.
While harboring forbidden feelings for the lovelorn Samantha, Christopher also meets Jessica, Avery's beautiful daughter from a previous marriage. A successful literary agent, Jessica believes in Christopher's work and encourages him to publish his thesis. Over time the two grow close.
As summer flows into fall, choices made in the heat of passion as well as a horrific tragedy precipitate sudden changes that will have life-altering repercussions for Christopher and the Binghams for years to come.
