Timmon, unable to shake off the experience of his mother’s hatred for him, turns what’s left of the desert store over to Susan Sugar Diamond, and hides out at his friend Gordon’s estate. Everyone that loves him knows that something has to be done to shake him out of the depression he is in.
Just past a year later, a note and a deed arrive in the mail, and Timmon heads out to Colorado. He doesn’t know it yet, but a showdown is brewing with his mother in which Timmon will finally have to face both his mother’s history and her hate for him, and the immense love he never knew she was capable of.