Jolene Mitchell grew up in a small town in Florida, the isolated and only child in a home rife with secrets. She was raised by an alcoholic mother and an abusive, emotionally absent father. As she matured, her psyche was troubled by feelings of being broken and missing fragments of her life. Her fathers unexplained death compounded this feeling and led to a strained relationship with her mother, who failed to fill in the missing pieces she yearned for. She married, hoping it would satisfy her longing for love and security, but her husband’s untimely murder spiraled her into the revelation that her fears were intertwined with her undiscovered truths.
Cameron Johnson was an up-and-coming journalist from New Jersey whose life journey in some ways paralleled Jolene’s. They were the same age, and she was also raised as an only child. Her career ambitions will bring her crashing into Jolene’s life when she finds discrepancies in a years-old date rape story that involved Jolene. And as she digs deeper into Jolene’s past, their lives, now bound by a search for the truth, collide and the two are forever changed. Cameron must face the ultimate truth about Jolene, one that she unintentionally tainted and that leaves anguish in its wake. Each has a hand in the other’s fate, but only one of them has the chance to tell the story.
Jolene Mitchell grew up in a small town in Florida, the isolated and only child in a home rife with secrets. She was raised by an alcoholic mother and an abusive, emotionally absent father. As she matured, her psyche was troubled by feelings of being broken and missing fragments of her life. Her fathers unexplained death compounded this feeling and led to a strained relationship with her mother, who failed to fill in the missing pieces she yearned for. She married, hoping it would satisfy her longing for love and security, but her husband’s untimely murder spiraled her into the revelation that her fears were intertwined with her undiscovered truths.
Cameron Johnson was an up-and-coming journalist from New Jersey whose life journey in some ways paralleled Jolene’s. They were the same age, and she was also raised as an only child. Her career ambitions will bring her crashing into Jolene’s life when she finds discrepancies in a years-old date rape story that involved Jolene. And as she digs deeper into Jolene’s past, their lives, now bound by a search for the truth, collide and the two are forever changed. Cameron must face the ultimate truth about Jolene, one that she unintentionally tainted and that leaves anguish in its wake. Each has a hand in the other’s fate, but only one of them has the chance to tell the story.