Jocie's father is a recently-divorced pastor in their small Kentucky town. While Jocie struggles to understand her parents' relationship, she also wonders about the secretive past of her Aunt Love and a newspaper pressman named Wes.
At Coyote Point, a lonely cliff overlooking the river where his father was last seen, 12-year-old Ance discovers much about the great wilderness and those who live there--including some things he never knew about his family and about himself.
