Shanna Newsom, an historian with a long-buried buried past of her own, makes a discovery while digging in her garden that threatens to throw her settled campus life into chaos. A found object pulls Shanna and her partner, ex-cop Rand McMurphy, into a vortex of deception and denial. The twisted trail they follow will test their relationship as it leads from recent accusations of sexual misconduct to an old and untold story of survival and back to encounters with the difficult truths of today.
Always Beginning is a romantic thriller that brings together complex characters who are not who they seem to be.