Twelve years ago, Alexis Morgan’s twin sister slipped out into the night and never came home. Three days later, her body was pulled from Willow Lake.
A witness claimed Allie had been seeing Jesse Morrell, the man Alexis secretly loved, and that he was with her the night she died. A shoddy investigation soon followed, spotlighting Jesse’s troubled past and the relationship he and Allie kept hidden from Alexis.
When the case went cold, Alexis was left with no answers, the crushing weight of her loss, and no reason to stay in Willow. Broken and betrayed, she left for college, vowing never to return.
Now she’s back, raising her six-year-old son around family and rebuilding a quiet life above the cozy hum of the coffee shop she shares with her best friend, Beth. But Willow hasn’t forgotten. And when Jesse returns to care for his aging grandparents, it’s clear Alexis hasn’t either. Time has not erased her complicated feelings for him—or her questions surrounding Allie’s death.
Then the threats begin. Deliberate, personal, and connected to Jesse’s return… and to Allie. As the danger intensifies and violence hits close to home, Jesse is once again under suspicion, allowing a killer to go undetected.
To survive what’s coming, Alexis must lean on the one man she can’t forgive as she confronts the past she’s spent twelve years trying to forget.