If there were awards given for the most people one individual could be in a single lifetime, you could find Kelly Griffin’s name on every list. New place, new persona.
“Who do you need me to be?”
After a life filled with reinventing herself, Kelly’s position as the Maintenance Manager at the plastics manufacturing plant in her small dirt-road town is a skin that has come to feel less and less like a façade. Kelly and her crew chief balance tending the run-down plant with fighting the Board of Directors, who believe in profits over safety.
Plant Manager Trevor Mills is caught between Kelly and the Board, which dictates his every move. When fiery interactions between Trevor and Kelly deepen into something more, they must choose how to balance fireworks in the bedroom and their rivalry in the office.
When one day the unthinkable happens – an industrial disaster that takes the life of her best friend and her crew and threatens the bucolic farming community that surrounds the plant, Kelly’s carefully drawn world collapses around her. When the smoke clears, she finds herself with no allies, scapegoated by the Board for the accident, and betrayed by Trevor. When the community turns against her, she picks up and runs.
Kelly finds herself in a small Reservation town with one remaining cat, her last paycheck, and no plan. In a kitschy little café beside the Sound, she meets the proprietress, Fern Henry, and her father Emmett, who will teach her the healing powers of the trees, the crazy and unbreakable bonds of family and how to find the true pieces of herself again. As Kelly’s life changes once again, she will have to decide which persona is the façade.
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