First published 2014
Wally Day receives two phone calls that pull him back to the place he swore never to revisit. His estranged mother pleads with him to come home. Then Sebastian Garafolo calls with news that changes everything. Garafolo is now a cop in Brown's Mill, but Wally remembers him from their last conversation twenty years ago when Wally confessed to underage sex in the apple orchard. This time Garafolo calls about Wally's missing cousin Kyle. Wally fled his small town in disgrace two decades earlier, leaving behind scandal and the boy who mattered most to him. Now he walks familiar streets where little has changed, where he recognizes faces by day and knows the secrets that emerge after dark. The search for Kyle forces Wally to confront the shameful events that drove him away. He must face buried truths about his family and reckon with a devastating night that shaped who he became. His future depends on making peace with his past.
Genres: fiction, 20th-century, american, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Brown's Mill
Period: 20 Years Ago
242 pages · ebook · Open Road Media
Content warnings: emotional-abuse, sexual-assault