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After a twenty-year separation, a Thanksgiving feast throws two childhood friends back together again. Zoey Whitten hides in the shadows of her physical and emotional scars. Her longest adult relationship has left her reeling with nightmares, panic attacks and the sense that the danger that stalked her in the past just might surface again. It’s been a long and hard haul to come back to some semblance of normalcy and then, on a plane trip back for Thanksgiving, she finds she is returning home not only to the parents that stood by her side at the most terrifying time of her life…but to the ghost of a childhood love that left her young life in tatters. Only now, that child across the street is a most interesting woman who can’t seem to believe how desirable her nerdy neighbor, Zoey has become. Ayden Sullivan, career-minded, determined that the single life is best for her, but willing to admit there may be something more in life than just casual hook-ups…suddenly finds herself intrigued and at the same time remorseful of the way she deserted her best childhood companion years ago. Zoey seems to be the kind of woman who is a counterpoint to the kind of relationships Ayden has become used to. Now the struggle comes to the surface that has them both walking delicately into a new understanding of what they might possibly mean to each other. In the pursuit of a possible relationship, Zoey needs to learn to trust again, not just accepting a love that has presented itself to her, but the realization that this new love involves a woman. Just when it seems she is ready to give herself to the new sensation of being loved by someone she has cherished for years, the haunting specter of a failed marriage surfaces again. Only this time, it seems he is coming back to the job he never finished the first time killing her if he can’t have her. Ayden recognizes what seems to have been missing in her conquests with women of late, someone who shares the beach town memories of summers long past the long weekends spent growing up…the long talks that never seem to materialize in the flighty females she has become used to. Just when Ayden feels Zoey will manage to cross the threshold of sensuality she broadly hints at, the past steps in and pulls her back. Only at the risk of dying herself, will Ayden make one last effort to prove to Zoey they are meant to be a part of each other’s lives. As the past and the present clash. Love proves stronger than fear. These two women discover the power of love can heal all wounds.