When twenty-six-year-old Catherine Rossetti is given her first case at the Blue Ridge Mental Health Clinic she doesn't realize that she is about to take a journey that will unlock a secret from her past. Following in her father's footsteps, Catherine is working on her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia. As part of her program she is doing an internship at the clinic. Her patient is Sarah Elizabeth Huntley, a young woman who hasn't spoken since the day she was found, a month before, sitting on the side of the road, covered in blood at the site of a horrific motorcycle accident. No one in the area had known the deceased victim but Catherine quickly uncovers information that indicates there was a connection between the young man and Sarah. As Sarah emerges from her self-imposed exile she shares her secret, pulling Catherine into a world foreign to her pragmatic ways. Catherine is challenged to examine her own life and come to terms with a dark moment from her childhood.

Rowing in Eden is about secret romances, spiritual awakening, the beauty of nature and the eloquence of poetry. It is a work of literary fiction that will appeal to those who yearn for the purity of unconditional love, even if it can't last forever.