In 1970, tragedy rocks a small village in the Adirondack Mountains. The wealthy summer community dissolves overnight, and the town falls into a dark, downward spiral. Years later, a beautiful stranger moves to town, awakening the townspeople's long buried guilt and fear. One man has the courage to befriend her. With fatherly devotion, Ben Chapman tries to shield Devon Wells from Glendon Lake's hostility, but she seems oblivious to it. Gradually, Ben becomes aware of the strange split in Devon's mind that causes her to drift between fantasy and reality, the past and present.
At the heart of the story is the consuming love between Chris Taylor and Missy Carson, two teenagers whose love transcended the boundaries between class lines with tragic results.
As both past and present unfold, readers come to question, like the characters in HEARTSONG, their own matrix of reality. Are past and present, this life and the next, separate realities or echoes of each other?