Opal Sullivan comes home to help her mother mourn Ruth, her mother’s closest friend, planning to stay in the house where she grew up only until she finds a place of her own and to keep well clear of Will Kendricks.
That plan fails before she can unpack the first box: too many questions still hang over Ruth’s death, and the roommate her mother has already arranged is Will.
Raised next door to each other by mothers who were best friends, Opal has never fully pulled her life free of his, even after one buried night ended years of contact between them.
If they want the truth about Ruth, they will have to break the distance they swore to keep, while the town that once felt safe turns uneasy.
When tragedy strikes again, Opal fears the facts ahead may hurt more than every lie they have carried, and the man she once despised may be someone she still cannot trust or let go.
