By H. L. Chandler

With time, some secrets wither and lose their power to harm. Other secrets fester and grow more poisonous with the passing of time. Knowing which type of secret to keep is a gamble. Greg Morgan didn’t have the privilege of making such a decision, and when a long-held secret explodes in his life, the timing doesn’t matter, either way the damage is as great. It forces Greg to examine his lifelong friendship with Rod Whitmer, a man as charming as Greg is practical. Greg’s wife, Kylee, the center of his world withdraws into sadness and sorrow. Their twenty-three-year-old daughter, Carol, is about to make a disastrous marriage, and nineteen-year-old, Julie, has no direction for her life. Greg and Kylee try to put their daughters first while struggling to sort out their own future. The Morgans' and the Whitmers', two families who shared friendship and child-rearing now find those years filled with lies. The Whitmer’s three grown children react according to their characters, while the Morgan’s daughters are too shattered to make any logical decisions. Rod and Susan Whitmer struggle on together, but Greg and Kylee Morgan find the task much harder.