"Mary's prose and storytelling is crystalline and lovely, a kind of geode broth, filled with light and piquancy." —DAVID KRANES Nell Walker, an L.A. executive who believed she had everything and learns she had nothing, finds herself boarding a bus rolling away from bitter loss toward a fiercely beautiful landscape, an impossible love affair, and a fight for the earth that brings her back to a past richer than anything she could have imagined.