Twelve years ago Miki AiLee walked away from her traditional Chinese heritage leaving her native Hawaii behind. Now thirty and unmarried Miki is a respected art history professor on the mainland. But when her grandmothers illness draws her back to Hawaii Miki realizes she has been gone too long. Her first love Alex bears scars that he is unwilling to explain and her grandmother is ready to share their familys darkest secret if only Miki will listen.
