Beckett Bowery never thought shed return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains. Her roots there were strong: Becketts parents taught at the college, and she never even imagined studying anywhere elseuntil a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the runFor the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that the past isnt the only dangerous thing in town