Going Home When Everyone Thinks You're Dead — Joanne Reid

Liza Diamond tries to go back home now that everyone thinks she has been dead for ten years. She discovers that the beauty of the small town of Walkersville still conceals a seamy underbelly of low-level intrigue, secrets, and lies. Liza herself is telling a few lies, the biggest of which is that her return is not driven by a desire for revenge. Her return is all about revenge for a love gone very wrong. This is part one of a series about life, intrigue, and gossip in a small New England town where society's rules and roles are set by family histories. Who's my Daddy? That's the big question Liza Diamond has to ask herself. Liza has found out that the town is much more complicated than she ever imagined. But then, aren't most small towns that way? Full of long-lasting disputes and old secrets and lies.