Scare the Light Away

Recently widowed Rebecca McKenzie, a successful Vancouver businesswoman, returns to small-town Hope River after an absence of 30 years to attend her mother's funeral.

Estranged from her father and two older siblings, she's left a brutal childhood and a psychopathic grandfather behind.

She expects her visit home to be short, but then she discovers the diaries written by her mother, a British war bride with a young baby who came to Canada to join a husband she scarcely knew.

Rebecca (and the reader) find her heart wrung by her mother's story.

Meanwhile, a young girl has gone missing, and the suspicions of the townspeople fall on Rebecca's handsome, charming brother Jimmy.

Before long, violence threatens and Rebecca must put aside some long-held grievances to protect Jimmy and find the real killer.