When Joan Ashby, a brilliant and intense author acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she makes a fateful decision to embrace her unintentional family. Challenged by raising two precocious sons, it is decades before she finally completes her masterpiece novel. Poised to reclaim the spotlight, to resume the intended life she gave up for love, a betrayal of Shakespearean proportion forces her to question every choice she has made.