In this personal letter to those facing the loss of a loved one, Billy revisits his own landscape of mourning – the tragic death of his fiancee, the loss of his beloved grandmother, the departure a dear friend. With sensitivity and understanding, he writes about he numbing reality of grief’s shadowland, and the sources of light and hope, the wise words, the acts of kindness, and the surprising revelations that eased him forward, and back into the land of the living.