When her father mysteriously disappears, twelve-year-old Bethany Henderson pours her feelings into her journal...including a heartfelt imagining of his return. Bethany finds herself able to overcome any obstacle simply by writing a solution in her journal. Through this strange ability, she manages to bring home her missing father and help a friend recover from a severe accident. On the night her father returns she learns that his disappearance has something to do with his past but her parents won’t tell her why. Now at twenty- three, her obsession with her journal and her parents’ secret, leads her to leave the suburbs and beaches of San Diego, traveling by train, to a small town in Illinois where something terrible must have happened twenty years ago. On the train she must relive her life through her journal entries hoping to uncover the mysteries. But when a dark threat from her father’s past separates her from her journal, Bethany might not be able to write anything...ever again.