Lila hadn’t been home in three years. The town looked the same as she drove through it, though the streets felt smaller somehow, like they had shrunk in her absence.

The same diner sat on the corner with its flickering neon sign, the same church bells rang in the distance. She tightened her grip on the steering wheel, her pulse quickening the closer she got to Claire’s house.

She wasn’t sure what she expected, but when she pulled into the driveway and saw her sister waving from the ...