The Year You Came Back

Some secrets wait where everything began.

Sometimes the only way forward is by going back.

 

Book one of the Secrets in Herring Point trilogy.

 

Drama therapist Kateri Grey never planned to return to Herring Point, the coastal Maine town where a crash stole her father and nearly took her life. But when her company is invited to launch a creative program on the Maine coast, Kateri sees the chance she has been waiting for: a way back to the place that broke her, and a chance to uncover why her father became consumed by a WWII sailor’s journal and the powerful family it exposed.

 

Detective Aaron Brogan is back in town too, on mandatory leave after a case in Portland shattered his confidence and left him questioning everything he thought he knew about justice, grief, and himself. Helping Kateri was never part of his plan, but the girl he once admired has become a woman he can’t walk away from. And the deeper they dig, the more Aaron fears what the truth will cost.

 

But Aaron has been carrying his own piece of that night, one he never meant for Kateri to find. If the truth begins there, it could change everything she believes about the crash, the town, and the people who let the past stay buried.

 

Drawn together by unanswered questions, old wounds, and a connection neither expected, Kateri and Aaron must decide whether healing means leaving the past behind, or going back far enough to finally bring the truth home.