When a family vacations at a secluded beach, they're horrified to discover its power to quicken the aging process, slashing their life span to one day.

Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.

Determined to make her own way in the 1860s, a writer looks back at the tough yet tender times spent with her three spirited sisters and a close friend.