Samantha Williams lost both her parents within a year. When she decided to move back home, she was flooded by memories from her childhood, both the good and the bad. Growing up in a southern town seemed idyllic. Samantha, Kathleen and their friends were free to roam the woods, splash in the creeks and talk late into the summer nights. The neighborhood was filled with kids of all ages. Life was one big adventure after another. But there were dangers lurking in this beautiful landscape of which the children were completely ignorant. The innocence of childhood would be lost through a series of events that changed their world. On Christmas night in 1966, three boys in the neighborhood were molested and murdered by a neighbor. Samantha and Kathleen learned the true value of close friends as they navigated together through turbulent times.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Gregory is a published freelance writer and author of a non fiction book, Seeking Simplicity: A Woman's Guide to a Balanced Life. This is her first novel and is set in a small town in Alabama in the turbulent 1960s.