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Lizzie Evans has always been an enigma to her daughter Sunny, gone for years at a time between visits, sending postcards from all over the world, but with no real connection between them. On her last visit she left Sunny an envelope containing $50,000 in cash and a note saying that she was going back to Berkshire Michigan, the town she grew up in, to "settle some things." A month later she is found dead, murdered in a particularly ugly fashion. Looking for answers Sunny goes to her mother's home town, but the questions she asks no one wants to answer. The local Sheriff Duncan Rimes, is movie star handsome but seems to be more interested in getting her to leave town than solving her mother's murder Attacked in an alley and told to get out of town or "end up like your mother," Sunny needs help and needs it badly. The only person she can turn to is Jess Hanniford, her first love, who shattered her heart when she was seventeen. Sparks fly between them when Jess arrives but can they let the the past remain buried? As Sunny and Jess delve into her mothers life they uncover a myriad of disturbing facts about the "Golden Girl," none of them flattering. Was Lizzie Evans just the local whore or was she something else? As Sunny and Jess trace back what happened years before, the attraction they both felt as teenagers returns. Jess's kisses are unbelievably hot but all Sunny can see is him naked in Chander's Creek with somebody else. About to be arrested by the Berkshire police and with Jess missing, Sunny turns to her ex-fiance Dan Halliday, an FBI agent that Sunny had almost married the year before. Dan comes to the rescue but is his interest in Sunny professional or more personal? The only person in town Sunny might call a friend is one of her mother's ex-lovers from high school Josh Ringold. He seems like a nice enough guy but is he? After all Sunny's mother had laughed at his marriage proposal and dumped him graduation night to go do