African-American Adult Fiction: Pamela Mayes was eighteen when she fled the small town of Mercy, Georgia and never came back. She left to escape the gossips and the stifling small town mentality. At least, those are the reasons she gave for leaving. When her twin sister is killed in a car accident, she has to return to Mercy and face everything she left behind. Finally the truth behind her disappearance comes to light and the secrets she's kept all those years are no longer secrets.