Some secrets just won't stay buried.
Daphne Sullivan wants justice for her mother's murder, falsely ruled suicide over twenty years ago. The case is ice cold until Daphne finds her mother's hidden journal and discovers the truth about what happened in Eileen's last days. One thing is clear?finding Eileen's killer will mean uncovering a web of corruption going back decades, and threatening the powers that rule this mountain town.
Daphne's boyfriend, Emerson Jones, is determined to protect the woman he loves?if she'll let him. But this is Daphne's fight, and she would rather walk into the darkness alone than risk him getting hurt again. She'll push him away before putting him in danger, even if it means losing her chance at happily ever after.
She won't stop digging until she takes down her mother's murderer. But the killer she seeks is closer, and more deadly, than she can possibly imagine.
