"Can you start your life over at forty? Lizbeth Jackson was about to find out .... Lizbeth was beginning a three-month sabbatical, on the scenic coastal island [of Ocracoke], in order to finish her master's thesis in linguistic anthropology. She plans to study the Carolina brogue spoken there. What she ends up studying is her lesbian neighbor across the street and the uncontrollable pull Lizbeth feels toward her."--Page 4 of cover.
