Left alone when his wife of fifty-seven years dies suddenly, Sam Peek begins telling his worried children of a beautiful white dog that only he can see, in a tale of life, loss, mystery, and hope.

A quiet, simple man and a war veteran, Noah has a mystical gift for fishing, yet he remains haunted by the war. In the way that innocence creates powerful events, Noah meets Eleanor Cunningham, a young widow whose husband supposedly killed himself after returning home from the war. Over the course of a week, Noah will be led into the secret lives of the residents of the Valley of Light, will join them as they mourn a tragedy, and will experience...

When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness. Foster will marry her and father her son. Ben will escort her home. And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until...

Sam Peek's beloved wife has died after their golden wedding anniversary, and a mysterious white dog adopts him.

The story of the friendship of a black boy and a white boy in rural Georgia in the 1940s.