Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the perfect life she always dreamed of: married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown, trying for a baby. Perfect. In fact, on the surface you might never know how tough things used to be. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, her father drowned his grief in alcohol, and she played parent to her two younger sisters more often than being a kid herself.Then one sweltering afternoon at the local fair, everything changes. Tilly wanders into the fortune teller's tent and is greeted by an old childhood friend, now a psychic, who offers her more than just a reading. I'm giving you the gift of clarity, her friend says. It's what I always thought you needed. And soon enough, Tilly starts seeing things: her father relapsing; Tyler uprooting their happy, stable life; and even more disturbing, these visions start coming true. As Tilly furiously races to keep up with and hopefully change her destiny, she faces the question: Which is the life she wants? The one she's carefully nursed for decades, or the one she never considered possible.
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