Chapter One

Home was a light in the window.

And after a long flight from LA, then a three-hour drive through Pennsylvania’s farm country—on top of everything that had happened in the past week—Jennifer Ridge needed home.

She climbed from her rental car and stretched, then shivered in her lightweight jacket. Wind swept across the fields, blowing powdery snow onto the porch where she’d spent so many hours as a troubled teen.

She tapped on the farmhouse door. When there was no response, she tried ...