Joe Smaltz and his wife, Hannah, a dedicated nurse, seem to have a happy marriage and a quiet life on Sugar Mountain.
Then Carrie Bennett, Joe's divorced former high school sweetheart, returns to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Carrie's return stirs memories Joe thought he had buried long ago. Before he realizes it, the past begins creeping into his present, threatening the life he has built with Hannah.
When Carrie becomes involved in the sale of a secluded mountain cabin, circumstances take an unexpected turn. Secrets emerge. Old relationships are rekindled. And questions begin to surface about what Carrie really wants-and why she has returned to Sugar Mountain.
Then Joe Smaltz disappears.
As Hannah searches for answers, she discovers that the people closest to Joe may not be telling her the truth. And when tragedy strikes, the search for Joe becomes a desperate race to uncover what really happened.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains, secrets don't stay hidden forever.
Secrets in the Blue Ridge Mountains is a gripping novella of love, deception, betrayal, and disappearance, where one woman's return from the past sets off a chain of events that will change several lives forever.