Eden Close by Anita Shreve

When Andrew returns to his hometown to upstate New York for his mother’s funeral, he does not intend to stay. But the dreams and memories of seventeen years ago persist, and in the darkened farmhouse he relives that hot, bloody night when Eden Close was blinded – by the same gun that killed her father. 
   Eden and Andrew had been childhood companions – smoking, fishing, skating and fighting – until the day the tomboy turned temptress. Now Andrew is drawn again to this lost, blind girl of his youth, drawn to save her from the cruel neglect she has endured for seventeen sightless years without him. But first he must discover the grisly truth about that night ...