When Hannah's parents die, she is sent to live with her grandmother. Hannah soon learns to keep her mouth shut and her opinions to herself; this is not the loving home she grew up in.
Soon, Hannah begins walking along the beach each morning, escaping for a few hours each day.
An infirm navy man next door provides the friendship she craves, and soon she has mere weeks before her twenty-first birthday, when she comes of age. Then, she will be...