Crimson Crossings

Revelations hang heavy in the crisp October tinged air of New England. Returning to the East for Parent and Family Weekend with her daughters and her best friend, Shannon O'Neal becomes aware of secrets long kept like brittle leaves from autumn days so long passed, pressed into the pages of books containing words unread. Wrinkled and creased in their delicate state those leaves hold the hints of what happened all those years ago when Shannon, her husband and their best friend last stood together at the black wrought-iron gates enclosing the tranquility of Harvard Yard— the entrance to who they were and what they would become. Caught up in a combination of warm nostalgia for the past, mingling with a celebratory hope for the future, Shannon O'Neal is about to discover hidden truths about her husband and a girl who disappeared in a trail of horrible smoke— a truth she might not be willing to face.