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The past can shatter in an instant…
Rachel Goddard finds her new Appalachian hometown a welcome refuge. As well, a successful veterinary practice and promising relationship with deputy sheriff Tom Bridger are helping her come to terms with her troubled past and find some kind of peace. But she's only a few feet away when newspaper owner Cam Taylor is brutally shot to death. And when arson claims Cam's wife soon after, Rachel discovers the Taylors' controversial lives sparked a county's worth of enemies.
But she's stunned when Tom makes one of her friends, cartoonist Ben Hern, his prime suspect. And Cam's malicious daughter wastes no time trying to discredit Rachel by using her deepest secrets against her. As several terrifying attacks leave her nowhere to hide, she must untangle a decades-old web of jealousy and infatuation to bait an insidious killer -- and risk her last chance at a future…