Pretty Ugly Promises

When people choose to leave, you should let them. That’s a lesson Lyla Peterson has learned over and over again. Abandoned more than once, her focus is on ensuring her son never experiences that familiar sting, not on lingering questions from the pain-filled past. Until the opportunity arises to seek elusive answers and Lyla seizes it, opening old wounds and revealing dangerous secrets. He chose to leave. She should have let him.