Maya Taylor, an intense, gifted English professor, has a tendency to retreat when she is needed most, escaping on long morning runs or finding comfort in the well-thumbed novels in her library. But when she sends her daughter Ellie to Florida to care for a friend's child, it's with the best of intentions. Twenty and spiraling, Ellie is lost in a fog of drugs and men--desperately in need of a fresh start. Her life with this attractive new family in...