On this night, another Atlantic winter storm is beginning to engulf Summter Island. Marion, driving her old Chevy, is on her way home from one of her community meetings when the car slides on a patch of black ice and crashes over the railing and into the sea below. When she wakes up, she finds that she is standing in front of her home, but now she is a ghost and to her surprise only her youngest grandson Patrick can see and talk with her This is a story about a mother who, after death, continues to work to keep her family together. It is a story of a family loving and caring for each other, and Marion uses her humor and stubbornness to help them recognize the value of family and the chance for them to give to their own children the life they themselves had while growing up at Windsong.