The retired librarian from Hideaway Bay, Carol Rimmer, has been handed a terminal diagnosis. As she looks over the course of her life, she decides she must do one more thing before she goes. But she's going to need help and who better to ask than Thelma Schumacher. Despite their history, she puts aside any dislike she has for the woman and asks for help in her last task.

Thelma is only too happy to help. She always felt bad that Stanley had chosen her over the librarian. And she knows the perfect person to help Carol.

But as Carol fulfills her final wish, she wrestles with a long buried secret, torn between revealing it or taking it with her to her grave.