About the Book: Teresa returns to a small Greek coastal town after her father dies—a place she first visited grieving her mother nine years earlier—and in letting the town and its people seep back into her life, she is forced to reckon with memory, loss, identity and free will. She re‑encounters John, haunted by tragedy; Petros, the poetic mechanic; Niko, a diving instructor and former lover; and Xanthe, a quiet waitress, and through them, through past and present, Teresa confronts guilt, longing, and what it means to live in the shadow of who she used to be