Beckett Bowery never thought she'd return to Wyatt Valley, a college town in the Virginia mountains. Her roots there were strong: Beckett's parents taught at the college, and she never imagined studying anywhere else - until a tragedy her senior year ended with two men dead and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again. For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. But deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory and that the past isn't the only dangerous thing in town.