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Pilot Lannis Parker has triumphed over her past - or so she thinks. She faces her rapist, then dredges up the courage to bring him to trial and is relieved to see Robert Davis imprisoned. But the closure she’d sought is elusive. Resurrected memories invade her life and threaten to splinter her relationship with those she loves most. Newly married, Lannis discovers she’s as much a prisoner as Davis, shackled by fear and inextricably bound to him through his crime. Frustrated at her descent into the past, her husband tries to understand, but fails.

No one wants to celebrate Christmas this year. Not Ella McKendrick, who, on the cusp of success as a potter, is tasked with her husband's company party on too-short notice. She gives up her first pottery sale to pitch in, but the joy of the season is diminished. Not Gertie Wycliffe, Ella's mom, a new widow who is doing everything she can to avoid her first Christmas alone. No one understands the grief and terror she feels - maybe because the craziness of a 74-year-old woman signing up for skydiving lessons is all she lets them see....

Sam Bledsoe prefers his reclusive existence. A one-man landscape business keeps a roof over his head and food on the table - and keeps his badly scarred face away from curious eyes. But when a woman faints on her way from neighbor Maggie Ross' house, he doesn't hesitate. He rushes to help while grappling with memories of the incident that burned him so badly.

Pilot Lannis Parker’s carefully constructed, sterile life is upended when her small plane is hijacked before dawn on a wintry Louisville morning. Her captor does more than force her to fly him to the Appalachian wilderness, though. He resurrects memories she’s tried to bury - memories of a brutal attack she’d survived four years earlier, an attack she didn’t report and tries to pretend didn’t happen.