It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.

Stanford was a town of many mysteries and had been for the past two hundred years. Victoria ‘Tori’ Collins was just an ordinary girl living in the unusual town. Her grandma used to tell her stories about how the town came to be. She never believed them and thought they were just tall tales that were told to children so that they did not wander into the Great Forest of Stanford. After her eighteenth birthday, strange things start happening…and along came Jared York. He seemed to have an effect on her that she couldn’t explain. Jared was in a lost state. He had given up hope of ever finding someone special. When he met Tori, it confused the hell out of him. Is his past trying to haunt him, or is she the real deal?