Five years ago, Frannie Willets committed grand larceny to help her best friend, Lexi Maddox, escape an awful situation. Now paroled and prospectless, Frannie needs to disappear from her dead-end life. To do so, she’ll need her share of the stolen money that Lexi has been hiding all these years. But Lexi has other plans.
By all appearances, Lexi is thriving, but in truth, nothing in her life is going according to plan. She can’t carry a pregnancy to term, her sweet stepdaughter hates her, and even the family’s new rescue dog knows she’s a failure. Lexi’s only path to happiness is making amends with the friend she dearly misses. But the only thing Frannie wants from Lexi is cash.
Out of desperation, Lexi offers Frannie all the money, with one catch: Frannie must stick around for one month. Stranded in their suffocating small town, Frannie gets tangled up in Lexi’s issues, her mother’s questionable dating life, a lonely kid’s desperate attempts to find friends, and a high-school crush’s fantasies about what could have been. Suddenly, leaving doesn’t look as easy as it once did. But when an old enemy surfaces, Frannie realizes her staying endangers everyone she loves. And even though she might have found her heart’s true home, there’s no guarantee she can keep it.
Frannie and Lexi are best friends. When tragedy strikes Lexi, Frannie helps her, but things go wrong and Frannie goes to prison for grand larceny to protect Lexi. Five years later, Frannie is out on parole and Lexi gets her a job in her small hometown. Married and with a stepdaughter Lexi has moved on in her life, but never forgotten what Frannie did for her. Frannie just wants the money that Lexi hid, so she can go somewhere, anywhere, to start over. Lexi has other ideas though.
This is a roller coaster ride of emotions. One feels for Frannie taking the heat so Lexi can get help and stay clear of the crime they committed. It’s not smooth sailing at all. They try to reconnect, but it’s a bumpy road. Very bumpy. But best friends don’t just give up on each other. A great story full of heart.
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