Maeve Binchy brings us the voices of ordinary men and women deciding between the past and the promise of the future...People have been coming to Saint Ann's Well for generations. Some believe it to be a place of true spiritual power; others think it's merely a magnet for superstition.

In her newest novel, the beloved Maeve Binchy brings us the voices of ordinary men and women deciding between the past and the promise of the future, as she vividly tells the story of a town, its history and its people.

People have been coming to Saint Ann's Well for generations. Some believe it to be a place of true spiritual power; others think it's merely a magnet for superstition. But now a new highway threatens to cut through Whitethorn Woods and destroy the well, and the citizens of Rossmore all have opinions on what this will mean.