Happily Ever After wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option.
But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes.
Do-over.
This time, though, I plan to do things differently.
Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path.
Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills.
I'll be taking care of a centuries old house that called to me when I was a kid.
It's just temporary, I tell myself.
It'll just be for a while.
That is, until I learn what the house really is, something I never could've imagined.
Thankfully forty isn't too old to start an adventure, because that's exactly what I do.
A very dangerous adventure that will change my life forever.
I have a chance to start again, and this time, I make the rules.