One small decision changed everything.

Susan and Jack had been married three days when the letter from the Draft Board ripped their world apart. Turns out Jack had dropped a 3-credit college class to help pay the rent. The Draft Board took notice and within a few short months, Jack was heading to fight in a war that was killing thousands of young men every month. Susan was alone, unsupported, unrepresented and unappreciated by the US Government, and then left to cope with a young husband who returned from the battlefield with a purple heart and a severe case of undiagnosed PTSD. In this gripping memoir of love and loss, readers will journey with Susan as her fledgling marriage becomes another casualty of war.

In 1958, in West Fork, a fictional logging town in rural Washington State, Faith Henderson, a beloved young Sunday School teacher, is brutally murdered. As the town struggles to move forward, Faith’s sister Claire vows to find her sister’s killer.