“You never get another yesterday…“
My mother used to say those words, but I never truly understood them—until my life fell apart.
1966 – Nineteen, alone, and with a baby on her hip, Maggie flees everything she knows. She lands in Shadow Brook, a quiet coastal town in Maine, where she begins to rebuild her life—working at an inn, making friends, and even finding love again. But some secrets refuse to stay buried, and Maggie’s past is one she’s desperate to keep hidden… even if it means protecting her daughter from a truth that could change everything.
1996 – Rachel swore she’d never live her mother’s life. But after discovering her husband in bed with another woman and losing her mother far too soon, she finds herself right back in Shadow Brook—trapped in the very life she thought she’d escaped. When she stumbles upon a box of her mother’s journals in the attic, long-buried secrets come to light. And with them, the realization that everything Rachel thought she knew about her mother—and herself—was a lie.
Two women. Two generations. One afternoon that unravels a lifetime of secrets.
LONG VALLEY PRESS 