Now she's back in the small town that was the closest thing to “home” she ever knew–the town where she can be with the sister who's her only family. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behaviour that resulted from her difficult childhood. When Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. Or will the season of love and forgiveness give them both another chance at happiness? He can't bring himself to turn his back on her, not at Christmas, but he refuses to get emotionally involved. With no other options, she becomes housekeeper for none other than Ted, now a successful suspense writer. Sophia is reduced to looking for any kind of work to pay the bills and support her daughter. Not only has he left Sophia penniless, he's left her to face all the townspeople he cheated… So when he goes missing, she secretly hopes he'll never come back – until she learns that he died running from an FBI probe of his investment firm. The man she did marry was rich and powerful but abusive.

Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned.īut Sophia has paid the price for her youthful transgressions. Too bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the town's Mean Girl. He only knows that he's finally met a woman he could love. He has no idea that his very presence reminds her of something she'd rather forget. Noah Rackham, popular, attractive, successful, is shocked when Adelaide won't have anything to do with him. But she can't, not without revealing an even darker secret. There are too many people here she'd rather avoid, people who were involved in that terrible June night fifteen years ago.Įver since the graduation party that changed her life, she's wanted to go to the police and make sure the boys responsible – men now – are punished. She's there to take care of her aging grandmother and to help with Gran's restaurant, Just Like Mom's. Sometimes home is the refuge you need – and sometimes it isn'tĪdelaide Davies, who's been living in Sacramento, returns to Whiskey Creek, the place she once called home. Join the many readers who've fallen in love with Whiskey Creek, the Northern California town created by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak. Come to Whiskey Creek, the heart of Gold Country!

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