The Road She Left Behind

A great pick for your book club this summer. Working Mother

Crushed by guilt over the car accident that killed her father and sister, and torn apart by her mothers resentment, Darcy Goodridge fled her family estate eight years ago and hasnt looked back. Now an unexpected phone call threatens to upend what little serenity shes found. Her nephew, Emerson, who was just a baby when his mother died, has gone missing. Darcy must return home and face her past in order to save him.

Once back in Ohio, Darcy realizes theres more to Emersons disappearanceand to the sudden retirement of her mother, Rosalindthan meets the eye. As she works to make inroads with Rosalind, Darcy begins to unravel a decades-old secret that devastated her family and forced a wedge between her and Michael Varano, the man she left heartbroken when she vanished after the funeral. After carrying the scars of that fateful night for almost a decade, Darcy is determined to find closure, healing, and maybe even love where she lost them all in the first placeright back home where she belongs.