Shattered Dreams

Three couples set out to celebrate the last days of summer, and only four of them came home. Charlie Barnes buried the girl he meant to marry that night in Montgavin Township, and he buried his old self with her. Now he is all hard edges and cold fury, and he has saved the sharpest edge for Autumn, the best friend who was there and did not stop what happened. Autumn has carried that guilt all the way out of town and back again, and one look tells her she is still not forgiven and still not welcome. Then one night pulls them too close to turn away. She wants a homecoming, he wants someone to blame, and neither knows how to want each other without betraying the past.