Claudia wants to grieve the death of her best friend, Maryann in her own way - by getting blind drunk, sleeping off the hangovers and living in isolation, while hearing the voice of Maryann, just like she'd been doing before the psychiatric ward. But her psychiatrist, her father and the judge won't have it.Maryann was killed in a car accident Claudia cannot remember. Her psychiatrist tells her its dissociative amnesia - caused by trauma and stress. Claudia is court-ordered to undergo therapy so she can talk about her best friend, her former fiancée and her past, including her mother's suicide when she was a teenager, and the strained relationship with her father, who remarried and started a new family.
She is forced to get a job at the failing and decrepit Mangione Bookstore and go to "imaging" therapy which opens her up to a dream-like world where she works through her grief.
Just when it begins to help, and she forms friendships and finds hope, her fiancée, Nigel returns with secrets of his own. Claudia's mental anguish and physical aberrations intensify, and she must uncover the truth, or her life will not be worth living.
Contemplative, warm and enchanting, Eyes on the Horizon is the story of a heartbroken, but hopeful woman whose introspection and yearning make for an engrossing journey as she realizes the greatest honor she can offer to her loved ones is to live her life fully.