A Light Last Seen

Chasing happiness and finding joy are two very different things as Jaynie Highsmith is discovering. Can she give up searching for the one and reclaim the other? Or is she fated to repeat the mistakes her mother made?

Jaynie Highsmith grew up in Cub Creek on Hope Road, the irony of which ~ the name, Hope ~ never failed to escape her. After a difficult childhood, she is desperate to leave her hometown and her unpleasant memories behind her and make a new life. She is determined to be the best version of herself she can create, but when she takes off she also leaves ~ and forgets ~  important parts of her past and herself.

The new life is everything she wants, or so she thinks until she finds herself repeating the same mistakes her mother made. Is Jaynie destined for unhappiness? Is it like mother, like daughter? Did running away only delay the unhappiness she is feels destined for?

Seventeen years after leaving home, Jaynie needs a new fresh start and returning to Cub Creek is necessary, but she is determined that the visit will be as short as possible and then she'll be out and free again. However, a longer stay may be vital to her future because if she has any hope of changing her destiny, Jaynie must reconcile the past she turned her back on with her present.