Fifteen years after the traumatic experience that ended in the death of her parents, Eva Howell seems to have it all. She also reluctantly published a bestselling book that reveals the harrowing events that she and her sister survived as teenagers at Ghost Lake, deep in the Idaho mountains. But with the truth of what happened to her so long ago finally revealed, her husband feels as though he’s married to a stranger. Stunned by his request for a separation, Eva needs time to regroup—and where better than Emerald Creek, where she can start to repair her struggling relationship with her sister. After years of healing from the brain injury she sustained, Madison Howell built a no-kill shelter where she can work with animals every day, and she’s happy. She’s in love with one of her employees, Dr. Luke Gentry, the town veterinarian. But his father died protecting Maddie and Eva all those years ago—how could Luke possibly love her back?