Chapter 1

Fiery rage consumes her, ensnaring her soul in its eternal flames, gripping her with the hauntingly beautiful devastation it can cause. To the outside world, Raelyn might as well be the ice queen, her dispassionate disinterest in anyone around her permanently frozen on her face. No one attempts to get close enough to see beneath the frosty exterior, which suits her needs perfectly. She has neither the time, nor the patience, for any distractions. This isn’t vacation, and the only emotions that matter are the ones driving her to find out what happened. And why.

Annabelle is warmth personified, at least that’s what anyone in the small town of Cane’s Harbor, Maine, would tell you. She always has a sympathetic ear for another’s woes, a kind word for a devastated heart or a warm embrace for those who have no-one else. It isn’t any wonder she’s the town’s most popular resident. Little do the townspeople know that lurking beneath the sunny exterior that Annabelle has perfected, rests the weary and broken down soul of someone who is bordering the edge of losing herself completely to the void.

In a town this small, secrets can either forge you together, or force a wedge so deep there is no chance it can ever be repaired. 

When it comes to Cane's Harbor, for everyone, save Raelyn and Annabelle, that secret has bonded them not only to each other, but to a very specific way of life that had been going on now for several decades.