The Secrets That Remain

Rylee Schmidt knows the past isn't finished with her.

She's already learned that some secrets can survive years of silence, distance, and even the life she built to escape them. But now Rylee has something she never had before: a reason to stop running.

With Kenzie beside her and Koda at the center of the life they've built together, Rylee is determined to protect the peace they've finally found. Yet the closer she gets to the truth about her past, the more she realizes that the story she thought she understood may have only been the beginning.

Old connections begin resurfacing. Questions that were never answered demand attention. People from Rylee's past carry pieces of information she never knew existed, and some of those pieces don't fit together the way she expected.

The deeper Rylee digs, the more complicated everything becomes.

What really happened before she left Fairhaven? Who knew the truth? Which secrets were kept to protect her, and which were kept to protect the people who betrayed her?

And how much of the past has followed her into the future she's worked so hard to build?

This time, Rylee isn't running.

She's searching for answers.

But answers come with consequences.

Because uncovering the truth doesn't always bring peace. Sometimes it opens doors that were meant to stay closed—and forces you to face what has been waiting on the other side.

Rylee thought surviving her past was the hard part.

Now she has to live with what she discovers.