Author Siri L. Mitchell (The Cubicle Next Door) invites readrers to an exotic andmysterious land on a tender journey of selfa'discovery. Though reporter Allie Oa?Connor has lived in Japan for two years, she still barelycopes as a foreigner. After an office romance ends badly, she prays in her lonliness one moonlit night for a friend. Just a friend. Soon after this prayer she runs into Eric Larson at church, an old classmate from high school.Eric has been assigned to the U.S. embassy and lives in Alliea's district. In school he had been a young Republican.Allie had been a liberal Democrat. He is not the friend she was looking for. And yet...here she is. Here he is. Will Allie risk their fledgling friendship to find out if it can become something more? Readersa? hearts will resonate with Alliea's look at her past, present, and hope for the future.