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Early retirement is supposed to be a good thing. For Blakely Moore, not so much. After twenty-five years of marriage, her wife moved on to a younger model, leaving Blakely alone to figure out what comes next. Deciding to spend the summer at a campground in a twenty-nine-foot trailer with her dog, Mabel and her best friends Steph, Myra and Jen, she finds that even though she physically left her criminal profiler position at the Rochester police department, she's still performing the job in her personal life.

Someone is stalking the seasonal campers at the campground, and the focus seems to be on Steph. When Blakely's old, revolting mentor from the Ithaca Police Department buys the campground, she thinks she made a poor decision. But she can't leave her friends alone to deal with a stalker and the new owner of Rock Creek Campground, whose managerial style is less than adequate. Soon, the police find a dead woman at the bottom of a gorge, throwing Blakely back to her first day as a cop. A policewoman in training, she found herself on the scene of a young woman's demise from a fall of over one hundred feet. The death eventually became a cold case, and it haunted her for the rest of her life, because the young woman dead on the bottom of the gorge was the woman she loved. Eventually, she left Ithaca to find a new life and a new job in Rochester, NY.

But with another woman dead, the similarities are too much and she realizes she has to see this through or she'll never be at peace. And with a stalker too close to her friend Steph, the feeling of having to protect her is more than that of a friend.

Could it be because she's beginning to look at Steph in a different way? The only answer she has is that everything happens for a reason, but damn if she knows what the reason is.

Nance Newman lives in upstate New York with her two rescue dogs--Ela and Misty. Ela was a rescue from the Puerto Rican hurricane and couldn't bark a list on English when Nance took her home. After she figured that out, she taught Ela English and Ela taught her some Spanish. Misty is rescue from a puppy mill and after seven years in a crate, she is experiencing everything life has to offer. She loves her sister Ela and has become her mirror. They are the truest of companions.

Nance recently retired--from work, but not from writing because it's one of the things she loves most to do. She's had wonderful employment opportunities, from teaching physical education to being a researcher at Eastman Kodak in the Motion Picture Film Department that increased her love for movies and storytelling. She was on a team that won an Oscar for the development of a new intermediate film for movie making.

Nance has been writing stories since college, as well as music (she sings and plays guitar). She loves a good movie, especially if it's fantasy or science fiction. She also loves to walk, bike, hike, garden, travel and to learn. Most of all, she loves to write and is excited to be able to devote more time to these passions.