Everyone has baggage by the time they’re into their thirties.

When single mom and Marietta High School teacher Gemma Clayton acquires a strong, family-oriented and very good-looking new neighbor over her back fence, she’s not put off by his complicated past as the attraction flares between them. Her own past is a very different matter, however.

Nobody knows what she went through on the night of the 1996 Marietta High School senior prom, between running after Judd and Garth Newell’s car as it left River Bend Park and limping into her friend Neve Shepherd’s street two hours later.

But Gemma’s secrets have been rusted up inside her for so long that not even a gorgeous man like Dylan Saddler can help her to break them free.

A Montana River Bend series

Book 1: Late Last Night

Book 2: The Sweetest Thing

Book 3: The Sweetest Sound

Book 4: After the Rain

Book 5: Long Walk Home