A wife leaves home with an elderly woman on a stretcher and nothing to her name—until dawn reveals a secret that changes everything she thought she knew.

woman who a year earlier had suffered a stroke that left her unable to speak and partially paralyzed.

Since then, Lucía had surrendered nearly everything to care for her. She was a nurse, yes, but she had never imagined she would end up washing, spoon-feeding, giving massages, and reading novels aloud to her husband’s mother while he barely appeared continue reading …